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• For Facebook users – No Stealth Fighters profi ...
  We’re very excited about the launch of our Canada-wide campaign on March 3rd to say to Prime Minister Harper: âNo Stealth Fighters!â In the lead-up to the start of the campaign this week, please upload this photo as your Facebook profile picture to let everyone know how you feel about this multi ...
• Gates channels Vizzini
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned against getting involved in future land wars in Asia (Thom Shanker, “Gates Warns Against Any More Wars Like Iraq or Afghanistan,” New York Times, 25 February 2011): Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets o ...
• Robert Green op-ed in Embassy Magazine
  Retired Royal Navy Commander Robert Green explains his views on nuclear deterrence in an article in the February 23rd, 2011 issue of Embassy Magazine (reprinted in full at Defence Watch): Nuclear deterrence has not prevented non-nuclear states from attacking allies of nuclear weapon states. Exam ...
• UN peacekeeping missions face shortfalls
  The United Nations continues to set new records for the size and complexity of UN peacekeeping operations. But the missions are facing critical shortfalls in key equipment such as helicopters, the UN reports (“UN peacekeeping missions face shortfall of over a third in vital military helicopters, ...
• Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
  Join us on March 3rd in a national day of action to tell Stephen Harper and your Member of Parliament No Stealth Fighters ! Ahead of the budget and possible elections, it’s more important than ever to be heard and voice your opposition to this multi-billion dollar purchase. The goal of the campa ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• HPV Affects Half Of U.S. Men
  March 2nd, 2011 The Huffington Post By: Dr. Jon LaPook A study out yesterday in The Lancet by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., and her colleagues finds that 50 percent of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. have genital infection with human papillomavirus, or ...
• Indiana Deputy Attorney General Fired Over Thr ...
  March 2nd, 2011 AOL News By: Dana Chivvis Indiana Deputy Attorney General Jeff Cox has been fired for remarks he made on Twitter last week, suggesting riot police in Wisconsin should use live ammunition when clearing protesters out of the Wisconsin Capitol building. The tweet led to a war of wor ...
• America’s “Healthiest” Fast- ...
  March 2nd, 2011 Health.com By: Nicole DeCoursy Used to be, when you grabbed breakfast on the go, it was a diet disaster: nothing but fat-and-calorie bombs like butter-soaked croissants and jumbo muffins. Now, it’s much easier to do right by your body: Fast-food legends like McDonald’s and IHOP, ...
• Day Care Owner Busted for Drugs and Adult Toys ...
  March 2nd, 2011 AOL Jobs By: Lisa Johnson Mandell Authorities found plenty of sex (toys), and drugs — all that seemed to be missing was the rock ‘n’ roll. These discoveries would have been bad enough at any legitimate business, but this bust happened at a day care center in Pittsburgh. When they ...
• Stare At Boobs For Longer Life
  March 2nd, 2011 TheMedGuru.com By: Neharika Sabharwal A rather bizarre study carried out by German researchers suggests that staring at women’s breasts is good for men’s health and increases their life expectancy. According to Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist and author of the study, gawking ...

Pambazuka News

• Haiti: Supporters in Haiti make ready for Aris ...
  Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. 'Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the ...
• Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultur ...
  After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
• Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of th ...
  Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
• March on Washington scheduled for November
  The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
• USA: Black community activist faces possible 1 ...
  Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...

War in Context

• Tom Friedman getting high in Egypt
  Muammar Gaddafi has several times claimed that he’s up against a rebellion in which his opponents are high on hallucinogenic drugs. I guess he never saw this or this. Tom Friedman, on the other hand, presents what can only be described as a hallucinogenic view of the revolution in Egypt — a psyc ...
• Libya uprising
  UN urges mass Libyan evacuation The UN has called for a mass humanitarian evacuation of people fleeing Libya for Tunisia, saying the border situation is at “crisis point”. General Secretary Ban Ki-moon said thousands of lives were at stake. Some 75,000 people have fled to Tunisia since the unr ...
• Why Saudi Arabia is ripe for revolution
  Madawi Al-Rasheed writes: In the age of Arab revolutions, will Saudis dare to honor Facebook calls for anti-government demonstrations on March 11? Will they protest at one of Jeddah’s main roundabouts? Or will they start in Qatif, the eastern region where a substantial Shiite majority has had m ...
• How will the Arab democratic revolution affect ...
• Iraq’s burgeoning protest movement
  Alice Fordham writes: The only way to get to Baghdad’s Tahrir Square — yes, it has one too — on Feb. 25 was to walk. It was a treat to stride down roads usually solid with traffic, but the silent city also felt ominous. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had warned that the long-planned “Day of Rag ...

Watts Up With That?

• Glory, glory, hallelujah – twice delayed ...
  NASA’s Glory Satellite scheduled for launch March 4 WASHINGTON — NASA’s Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus XL launch vehicle led to the scrub of the original … Continue reading →
• Light posting this week and next – but t ...
  I’m on a necessary two week road trip to meteorology related trade shows to show some of my technology and content. Unfortunately times being what they are, the trip was more economical with me driving and hauling equipment than it … Continue reading →
• NASA will try to explain the missing sunspots
  This should be interesting. At least they aren’t putting Dikpati on the panel. The scene from the movie “The Wizard of Oz” where after the residents of Emerald City see strange writings in the sky and shout “the Wizard will … Continue reading →
• In Which I Finally Understand the Fair-Weather ...
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the Pacific off the coast of California, there’s an unusual weather phenomenon called a “fair-weather gale”. It happens periodically in the summer when California’s Central Valley and Mojave Desert heat up. To replace the … Continue reading →
• A banner day for the EPA
  With days  where they come off like this, who needs enemies? Two things happened on March 1st that make me question how this government organization can function reliable and serve the people of the United States. First was a Carl … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• The Tables Get Turned: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox March 2, 2011 Turn about is fair play. American Proverb In February of 2010, based on the flimsiest of physical evidence and rampant anti-Muslim bias, a Pakistani woman, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, was ...
• U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War O ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 2, 2011 The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have entered the third month of war in Afghanistan this year, which President Barack Obama in Decem ...
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PBS It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people trapped inside. The private industry of the American factory ...
• The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan by ...
  by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 1 March, 2011 The Anti-Empire Report The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name “Marshall Plan” keeps being repeated by political figures ...
• Russian military: Airstrikes in Libya did not ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | Mar 1, 2011 The reports of Libya mobilizing its air force against its own people spread quickly around the world. However, Russia’s military chiefs say they have been monitoring from space — and the pictures tell a different story. According to ...

Your New Reality

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  Now, Who In The Media & Western Governments Said Egyptians Weren't Ready For Non-Mubarak Rule? news graphic from abc.net.au/news In less than 30 days of mostly non-violent protests and direct action, the people of Egypt has brought the 11,000 day emergency rule of the US & Israel lackey Hos ...
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  Tick Tock, watch the clock. An impressive short movie, playing with our brain's need to see events unfolding in forward, not backwards, time, and yet you quickly pick up what is going on, and want to watch it through again immediately once you understand : A brilliant piece of movie-making, ...
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  One escalator goes a bit faster than normal and look at the chaos & near tragedy that rapidly unfolds : One day, artificial intelligence controlling city infrastructure & transport will pull stunts like this to evaluate how we behave & respond. Or it might just do it for fun.
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  The American Uprising : Week One If The Police & Army Won't Help Quell Protests, They'll Send In The Robots By Darryl Mason Extraordinary scenes from Wisconsin last week showing the birth of the anti-austerity/USUncut movement. An occupation of the Wisconsin State Capitol was supposed to be e ...
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  Believe It, They're Still In Control By Darryl Mason Yes, some of these children may be amongst the most instantly irritating children in the history of the universe, but they are discussing a "new reality" just on a decade away and this blog was supposed to be about New Realities, so here it ...

Wired - Science

• Hagfish May Absorb Carcasses With Their Skin, ...
  When Pacific hagfish burrow into a carcass and eat their way out, they may be feeding directly through their gills and skin as well as their guts. Lab tests suggest that hagfish actively take up nutrients through their outer tissues, says fish physiologist Chris M. Wood of McMaster Universi ...
• Sight Gets Repurposed in Brains of the Blind
  In the brains of people blind from birth, structures used in sight are still put to work — but for a very different purpose. Rather than processing visual information, they appear to handle language. Linguistic processing is a task utterly unrelated to sight, yet the visual cortex performs it ...
• Tiny Spheres Turn Regular Microscopes Into Nan ...
  Ordinary microscopes can see 8 times beyond known physical limits if miniature glass spheres are sprinkled onto samples, according to a new study. The cheapest and most common microscopes use white light to magnify objects, but the nature of light and the limitations of our eyes mean those mi ...
• NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Zeroes In on Mercu ...
  NASA's Messenger probe will finally settle into orbit around Mercury on March 17, making it the first spacecraft ever to orbit the innermost planet.
• Banned Chemical May Interfere With Pregnancy
  PCB exposure may interfere with a womanâs ability to get pregnant, a new study of women undergoing in vitro fertilization suggests. The study of 765 women found that those whose blood contained the highest levels of a particular form of polychlorinated biphenyl — one known as PCB 153 — were ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Folk music legend Pete Seeger endorses boycott ...
  Folk music legend Pete Seeger has come out in support of the growing Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as a program for justice for Palestinians and a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Lia Tarachansky: Seven Deadly Myths
  Seven Deadly Myths examines the concept of knowing and not knowing at the same time. Seeing and not comprehending what you see. It starts in the West Bank colony of Ariel where director Lia... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• MK Ahmed Tibi: Israeli Arab leaders who visite ...
  In Israel there is ethnic democracy: democracy for 80 percent of the public and exclusion and discrimination for 20 percent, and a regime of oppression and dictatorship in the occupied territories. I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Jonathan Cook: An empire of lies
  The consequences are already tangible across the Middle East, which has suffered disproportionately under the oppressive rule of empire. The upheavals as Arab publics struggle to shake off their... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Israeli Panel: ’2002 hit of Hamas leader was j ...
  While criticizing decision makers for underestimating the risk of civilian injuries, probe panel says Israel's Gaza assassination of Salah Shehadeh was a necessary part of its war on 'murderous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• 'No-targeting' pact key to missile defense dea ...
  A formal agreement guaranteeing that NATO and Russian missile defense systems are not directed against each other is the key to cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
• Russian plan to deploy missiles on disputed is ...
  Japan is concerned over Russia's plans to deploy missiles on a group of disputed islands, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on Wednesday.
• Russian border service to set up network of Ar ...
  The Russian Federal Border Agency plans to establish a monitoring network in the Arctic, from Novaya Zemlya to Wrangel Island, the FBA first deputy head said on Tuesday.
• Russian guards at Abkhazian border to receive ...
  Russian sea border guards at the crossing with Abkhazia will receive two additional vessels in 2011, the deputy head of the Russian Federal Security Service's border guard department said on Tuesday.
• India plans to increase defense spending by 11 ...
  India is planning to increase its defense budget by 11 percent in the next fiscal year, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday.

NewsWise

• Ecological Adaptation Likely to Influence Impa ...
  Animals' capacity to adapt is a factor in how they are likely to respond to changing climate conditions.
• Drug Could Help Preserve Brain Function After ...
  An experimental drug that targets a brain system that controls inflammation might help preserve neurological function in people who survive sudden cardiac arrest, new research suggests.
• $1 Million USDA Grant Aims to Reduce Obesity i ...
  The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $950,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to integrate obesity prevention strategies into programs delivered to low-income families.
• Researchers Convert Algae to Butanol; Fuel Can ...
  A team of chemical engineers at the University of Arkansas has developed a method for converting common algae into butanol, a renewable fuel that can be used in existing combustible engines. The green technology benefits from and adds greater value to a process being used now to clean and oxygen ...
• Online Resource Gives Teachers Wealth of Middl ...
  Students in high schools and colleges around the country can get a much richer look at the history and culture of the Middle East through a new online resource, "Teaching the Middle East," which covers topics ranging from prehistory through the development of modern states.

Natural Health News

• Peek into the Future at Amazing New Technologi ...
  There may come a day where glass is no longer fragile, and can be used in pretty much every area of your life.
• Eisenhower 50 Years Ago Warned of Rise of Mili ...
  On January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the U.S. of something he described as a threat to democratic government. He called this threat the �military-industrial complex�, a union of defense contractors and the armed forces.� The term has become a rallying cry for opponents of mili ...
• This Modern Day Convenience Can Disrupt Your M ...
  Experiments on mice have shown that throwing off their ancient circadian rhythms by artificially altering the length of their days has a substantial impact on their bodies and brains. This suggests that the modern, round-the-clock lifestyle, made possible by electric lighting, could disrupt meta ...
• Too Few Docs Tell Patients They're Overweight
  Many people who are overweight and obese don�t even know it, and too few doctors are willing to tell them, according to a new study.� Researchers examined data on roughly 5,500 people, and found that one-third of the obese participants and more than half of overweight participants had never been ...
• 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
  Ray Kurzweil believes that the world is approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent -- and more intelligent than humans, at that. When that happens, he asserts, humanity will be completely and irreversibly transformed. And he puts that moment as being about 35 years away. Once a ...

Antemedius

• Gov. Barbour Tries To Retool "Welfare Queens" ...
  Mississippi Governor and probably presidential hopeful Haley Barbour is a real piece of work. With his Boss Hogg good looks and his penchant for idolizing Jim Crow groups like the Citizens Council (who enforced an economic apartheid on Southern Black citizens) but thus far that has not stoppe ...
• "Your Forefathers Would All Have Been Gassed"
  There's a video available online that has created quite a scandal this week. It shows a fashion designer in Paris telling someone he loves Hitler and that their mothers and forefathers would have all been gassed to death. I think the staying power of Hitlerian madness is more easily understood ...
• First Mercenaries, Now Spies For Hire
  I have never understood the fetish for privatization that has gripped our nation for the 15 years or so. Sure I get it that most of the companies that get the contracts for things that the government used to do are the buddies of the Republican Party and they get a ton of money from it. Still ...
• SCFL Calls For General Strike If Walker Plan I ...
  As the protests in Madison have continued and even grown in the face of an obdurate Governor and even a major winter storm they have not been alone. This weekend there were rallies in all 50 states in support of the public employees unions. That first-term Governor Scott Walker has overreach ...
• Two Birds, One Stone: Solidarity Saturday In T ...
  Today is Solidarity Saturday. Your bloguero and thousands of others will brave the cold and head to Albany, New York, and other cities across America for demonstrations in support of Wisconsin’s beleaguered public workers and their unions. So the first bird (in this case a phoenix, for Ameri ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• What Are the Best Legal Arguments For and Agai ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Question to OJ readers.  Suppose that you were the chief legal advisor to the US DOS, or to the UK foreign minister, or to NATO, or some country or coalition in which there is active discussion about armed intervention on humanitarian grounds in Libya, ...
• Pennumbra Debate on Targeted Killing Concludes
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Just a quick update to point out that Pennumbra, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s online companion, has published the fourth and final installment of my debate with John Dehn on the targeted killing of Al-Aulaqi.  You can find the entire deb ...
• Will Anyone Publish Saif Gaddafi’s Book on Civ ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro We already knew that Muammar scion Saif Gaddafi had written a dissertation at LSE entitled âThe Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions: From Soft Power to Collective Decision Making?â But I didn’t know that it was slated to ...
• Could the Prosecutor Decide Not To Investigate ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Moreno-Ocampo said the following today: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says information of attacks on civilians by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi suggests they could constitute a crime against humanity. Luis M ...
• Welcome to the Blogosphere, Justice in Conflic ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The blog is a solo venture run by Mark Kersten, a PhD student in international relations at the LSE.  I would explain the subject-matter of the blog, but I think the name speaks for itself.  I will say that the posts have been excellent so far; readers ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Latest Investigate HIS HERS onsale
• Free Movie tickets: CONVICTION
  The kind folk at 20th Century Fox have made available some double passes for our TBR, Twitter and Facebook readers to see the new movie CONVICTION, based on the true story of Betty Ann Waters who studied to become a...
• New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
  As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
• Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
  Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...

My Care2 Picks

• Energy Saving Light Bulbs could trigger breas ...
  Compact Florescent Light (CFL) bulbs is facing a mighty backlash from consumers, health experts and environmentalists. As part of the governments �Green Revolution� campaign, Congress has passed legislation that requires the �energy-saving� CFL�s to replaSubmitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellnes ...
• Inside the Muslim Brotherhood
  Muslim Brotherhood quietly sustained the real fires of protest until they engulfed Egypt in an all-out revolution to topple the corrupt and brutal 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak...an outlawed movement hiding its roleSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 100 Books You Should Read Instead of Going to ...
  If your dream is to own a business, you should know that there are ways around going to business school. In fact, many of the world�s most successful CEOs have never been to college. Submitted by Angle Sharon to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tweeting with Uncle Sam
  The idea of using social networks to bring about political change is the brainchild of the cyber freedom fighters of North Africa and Middle East. The United States has brazenly adopted it. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• My Polluted Kentucky Home
  Since it was first used in 1970, mountaintop removal has destroyed some 500 mountains and poisoned at least 1,200 miles of rivers and streams across the Appalachian coal-mining region.Bathe children in water that has arsenic levels as high as 130 times Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...

Angry Indian News

• U.S. rapidly prepares for military interventio ...
  U.S. rapidly prepares for military intervention in Libya | The Marxist-Leninist: "In a qualitatively different reaction than the one taken toward other governments facing uprisings in North Africa... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Settlers rampage in W. Bank after outpost dism ...
  Settlers rampage in W. Bank after outpost dismantled - JMCC.org: "Villagers in Huwara in the occupied West Bank said settlers threw petrol bombs into a house, broke the windows of another, and burned... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Urewera 18 seek right to a jury trial – suppor ...
  Urewera 18 seek right to a jury trial – support them 3 March 2011 Wellington | TangataWhenua.com: "(Source | No Rigth Turn) The Urewera 18′s appeal against the decision to deny them a jury trial goes... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Second QEB goon named
  : "A second goon from the Queen Elizabeth Barracks can be officially named today, thanks to sources who were quick to recall him from earlier run-ins.He is Captain Aseri... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ReliefWeb � Document � Libya: Kadhafi recruiti ...
  ReliefWeb � Document � Libya: Kadhafi recruiting hundreds of Tuareg fighters: Mali: "BAMAKO — Hundreds of young Tuareg from Mali and Niger, including former rebels, are being recruited by embattled... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Truth Squad Radio: The Truth about Gardasil!
  Laurie Dean-Smith will join us with other members of her group dedicated to stopping the forced use of Gardasil on our young girls and boys.
• National Organics Program – Testing for GMOs N ...
  Yes, it's true. There are most likely GMOs in our organic foods. Not because they are “allowed,” because they aren't, but because contamination is widespread throughout the agricultural industry, and the USDA's National Organics Program (NOP) is designed so that GMOs can enter USDA Certified Org ...
• Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: Talk to ...
  We do not domesticate animals, they domesticate us. They tell us what they require, and we comply. In return, they consent to do what we require. Most approach this relationship with critters the other way around, which is simply bass ackwards.
• Truth Squad Radio – People and Wildlife Living ...
  Join us Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011! This Wednesday we will be speaking with guest author Joel Thomas!  People and wildlife are living closer together all the time and while problems continue to grow, many of them can be solved by simple information and techniques that can provide effective non-let ...
• Monsanto Shifts ALL Liability to Farmers
  Monsanto does not accept liability for damages from genetically modified crops, shifts liability to farmers, and creates a condition on the sale of a farmer's land requiring the purchaser to sign a Monsanto Technology Use Agreement.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• California should allow gay marriage-att'y gen ...
  ShareThisCalifornia should allow gay marriage-att'y general 01 Mar 2011 California's attorney general urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to permit gay marriages while it considers whether to overturn the state's ban on same-sex weddings. Attorney General Kamala Harris, in arguments filed with ...
• 2 US ships move closer to Libya, enter Suez Ca ...
  ShareThis2 US ships move closer to Libya, enter Suez Canal 02 Mar 2011 Egyptian officials say two U.S. warships have entered the Suez Canal on their way to the Mediterranean, moving closer to the Libyan coast after orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The officials say amphibious assault ...
• Gadhafi forces seize back rebel-held eastern t ...
  ShareThisGadhafi forces seize back rebel-held eastern town --Rebels report that there was an aerial bombardment of Brega by Gadhafi's forces, who managed to take back the city after losing it in violent clashes with the rebels. 02 Mar 2011 Forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi have recaptured a town i ...
• UN delegates 'walked out' during Clinton speec ...
  ShareThisUN delegates 'walked out' during Clinton speech 02 Mar 2011� Palestine's delegation to the UN human rights council walked out Monday in protest of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech in which she criticized the council for bias against Israel. The Palestinian representative i ...
• U.S. Congress Set to Approve Bill Preventing G ...
  ShareThisU.S. Congress Set to Approve Bill Preventing Government Shutdown 02 Mar 2011 The U.S. Congress is set to give final approval to a stopgap budget bill needed to prevent a government shutdown, clearing the way for difficult negotiations over spending levels for the rest of the 2011 fiscal ...

Daily Loaf

• USF’s Amazing Race and Bicycle & Pedestrian Sa ...
  After the bicycle race scavenger hunt, there will be a party with food, music, giveaways and an awards ceremony with rewards for the top 5 teams and prizes for all participants.
• Theater Review: Gorilla’s Sweet Storm is too b ...
  It's not often that plays seem too short, but critic Mark Leib says this one is in dire need of a second act.
• Who will get majority of Turanchik, Scott & Gr ...
  Good morning, America! Okay, sorry for the feigned enthusiasm.  Covering last night’s municipal election here in Tampa and coming back early to the office means frankly, we’re not too cogent at the moment.  But we will have a Rose Ferlita- Bob Buckhorn mayoral final that we’re really looki ...
• Tampa Bay food and drink events
  Plan your eating and drinking with this comprehensive list of events and weekly specials.
• Epilogues, heartbreak, and evolution
  No one has ever loved me as much as my husband loves me. So intensely. So purely... And I love him too. But he is not a woman.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
  “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
• VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Sha ...
  The headlines alone tell the whole story. ‘Teenage girl left brain-damaged  after receiving cervical cancer jab‘, ‘Thousands of UK schoolgirls have suffered adverse reactions…several reported multiple reactions’, ‘20,575 adverse reactions, 352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccinati ...
• VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
  Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
• VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
  The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

• War Stories & Rumors
  Russian Tank near Tarin Kot 02 March 2011 There are always the stories.� Some true, some not, most are hybrids.� There was the story in Iraq of the farmer who found a crashed UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).� The farmer thought it might try to fly away so he tied it to a tree.�� There was the ru ...
• Scorch & Puddle
  The Puddle 28 February 2011 Urozgan Province, Afghanistan This morning, we drove a dangerous unpaved road from Tarin Kot to Dehrawud, passing recent bomb craters and ancient wrecks of two Soviet tanks.� The muddy road often splashed brown soup across the windshield while grey skies threatened ...
• Dead Taliban in Chora
  (A raw, unedited note from war.) Men lining up to pay respects to killed Taliban 27 February 2011 The places have names like Sangin, Arghandab, Panjwai, Now Zad, Musa Qala, Korengal Valley, Pech Valley, Tarin Kot, or Chora.� Names that mean almost nothing to most people, but everything to oth ...
• Panjwai: Spanish Translation
  El peligrosísimo distrito de Panjwai, en la provincia de Kandahar 27 de febrero de 2011 Desde Tarin Kot, provincia de Uruzgán Panjwai viene siendo una de las zonas más peligrosas de Afganistán. En su suelo se ha derramado mucha sangre canadiense, estadounidense y afgana. Según el diario The ...
• Buen trabajo en Afganistán
  22 de febrero de 2011 Hoy he vuelto de nuevo a Kandahar e inmediatamente me puesta en marcha hacia las zonas interiores más aisladas. En esta ocasión no voy con las tropas, pero más adelante veré la posibilidad de incorporarme o adherirme a alguna unidad. Mientras manejamos por la ciudad de ...

The Killing Train

• Wikileaks and the Future of Information
  Wikileaks and the future of information from Justin Podur on Vimeo. read more
• Settle in and wait for the coup in Egypt
  Most people are interested in something that no one knows or can know: what is going to happen in Egypt? It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future (that's from Keynes). There are lessons from past revolutions that might help us understand what is happening, but from where ...
• More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
  Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
• I am not a gadget
  Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...

treehugger

• Cutting Fuel Taxes Will Exacerbate Oil Crisis
  Last week I posted a link to a powerful opinion piece about the West's Faustian pact on oil. But as the oil price spikes continue, and consumers start feeling the pain, pressure is mounting on Governments to cut taxes, increase subsidies, and otherwise help people get around—invariably by ca ...
• News Corporation Announces New Sustainability ...
  Image: News Corporation News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral. Today, it announced a whole new set of targets—som ...
• San Francisco Using Facebook To Fix Potholes a ...
  Photo by stevendepolo via Flickr Creative Commons Awhile back, we heard about Fill That Hole, PotholeSnitch, and SeeClickFix, apps that allows city residents to report potholes on city streets. But of course, to report a problem you need a smart phone. San Francisco is opening up not only t ...
• 1930s Fish Market Recycled Into New Design Cen ...
  Photos: Paula Alvarado. A dark warehouse that used to function as the city's fish market from the 1930s until the early 1980s has been recycled into a new home for the Metropolitan Design Center in Buenos Aires. Although not sold as green, the building's recycled structure, wonderful na ...
• Endangered Hammerhead Sharks Tracked To Save T ...
  Photo by kiwi flickr via Flickr Creative Commons Many shark species are coming close to the point of extinction thanks to finning -- the practice of killing sharks only for their fins and dumping the usually still living shark back into the sea to drown. One such species is the Great Hammer ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Military prioritised as Burma expands airforce
  Parliament given no say in new budget that allocates 23 percent of annual spending to military and 1.3 percent to healthcare
• Heavy fire, landmines rock eastern Burma
  Consecutive landmine blasts claim victims in Pegu division while heavy shelling in Karen state's Hpa-pun forces 1000 to flee
• Global crises spark inflation hike
  Political unrest in Middle Eastern oil-producing nations has increased the price of fuel and other key commodities in Burma
• UK to become top donor to Burma
  Dramatic increase in British aid to Burma to target healthcare and education sectors announced, but approach draws criticism
• Business lobby broadens its Asian horizons
  Leading Burmese industry federation announces staff reshuffle as it prepares to open an office in Beijing, cementing Chinese business relations

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Unscientific hype about the flooding risks fro ...
  The warmists have sound financial grounds for hyping the dangers of flooding posed by climate change, writes Christopher Booker
• A shocking future in store for polluting pensi ...
  Pensioners and those approaching retirement are recklessly gorging their way through the planet's resources without so much as a nod to the recycling bin, writes Melissa Kite.
• SOAS: inside the school of exotic wonders
  Scientists are scouring a priceless archive of British and foreign texts, says Maddy Fry
• Dust from Africa may increase risk of seafood ...
  Dust blown into the oceans from African deserts can increase the growth of bacteria that are the main cause of food poisoning from seafood.
• Johnny Ball 'abused by environmentalists' over ...
  Veteran children's television presenter Johnny Ball claimed today his career was being wrecked by environmentalists.

National Geographic | Environment

• 3 Surprising Ways Global Warming Could Make Yo ...
  Global warming may cause surprising human health problems due to microbes, bacteria, and toxic algae blooms, new research suggests.
• "Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Se ...
  Pools teeming with life found among remote Antarctic sea ice contain "the greenest water I've seen in the world," an expert says.
• Little Fish Exploding in Number, Models Show
  There are still plenty of fish in the sea—they're just the little ones, according to new models of fish decline.
• New Brunswick Seeks Natural Gas, and a Safer W ...
  The province of New Brunswick on Canada’s East Coast is a frontier for shale gas development, and for a new approach to industry oversight.
• A Cubic Foot of Tropical Forest
  NoneNational Geographic photographer David Liittschwager photographed this Metrosiderous tree and all 58 species he found crawling, flying, or taking root in it.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Europe court rules insurance companies may not ...
  [JURIST] The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] ruled [judgment] Tuesday that an EU directive allowing insurance companies to charge men and women different rates in some countries violates the Charter of Fundamental European Rights [text, PDF] and must be struck down. Article 5( ...
• Wisconsin judge orders capitol building open t ...
  [JURIST] A Wisconsin circuit court judge extended an ex parte restraining order [petition and affidavits text, PDF] on Tuesday that the Wisconsin capitol building must be made open to the public during business hours, sought in light of recent protests that have caused officials to regulate entr ...
• Cambodia court rejects opposition leader's fin ...
  [JURIST] Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy [party profile; JURIST news archive] lost his final appeal to the Cambodian Supreme Court on Wednesday for charges [JURIST report] of intentionally destroying posts marking the border between Cambodia and Vietnam and inciting racial discrimination ...
• UN suspends Libya from rights council
  [JURIST] The UN General Assembly voted Tuesday to suspend Libya from the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official websites] in response to the violent suppression of peaceful protesters by forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile]. The resolution [UN News Centre report], adopted by cons ...
• Supreme Court rules corporations lack 'persona ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 in FCC v. AT&T [Cornell LII backgrounder] that the 7(C) "personal privacy" exemption [DOJ backgrounder, PDF] to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text] request does not apply to corporati ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Status of Women Measured by White House -- But ...
  In the 1950s, Betty Friedan identified women's dissatisfaction as "the problem that has no name." In the Bush years, it became the problem that has no data. The administration eliminated a key equal employment survey that tracked advancement and wages by race and gender. At the time, women's org ...
• Gingrich Has Been Busy Raising Money for Candi ...
  Newt Gingrich gets around. Around the country, around the political scene, and, significantly, around the fundraising circuit. Gingrich will soon announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, and he plans to announce in March whether he will follow through with a run for presi ...
• Palin: Obama's 'Appalling' Decision on Gay Mar ...
  After the Obama administration announced last week that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)--the bill that federally defines marriage as existing between a man and a woman--against court challenges, Sarah Palin offered this response to the National Organization for Marri ...
• Huckabee Thinks Obama 'Grew Up' in Kenya
  Updated 5:05 p.m. A spokesman for Fox News host Mike Huckabee said the former governor "misspoke" when he said twice on a radio show Monday that President Obama was raised in Kenya. "Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in 'Kenya.' The governor m ...
• Every Issue Isn't a Voting Issue for Everyone
  There's some interesting reporting buried inside this piece: Rev. Joseph Lowery, the civil rights leader who prayed at Obama's inauguration, has long supported civil unions and predicted black churchgoers will continue to support Obama even if he backs same-sex unions. "The president has over ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] 100+ articles on Militarisation of Aid ...
• [COAT] Canada's Role in Haiti's 2004 coup (New ...
• [COAT] New Data! Canada's Arms Exports to the ...
• [COAT] Canadian arms exports to Egypt & 15 oth ...
• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COA ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• David Yerushalmi, Islam-Hating White Supremaci ...
  You’ve gotta hand it to David Yerushalmi.  Until now, I can’t recall a Jew who’s ever been called a white supremacist before (actually now that I think of it, I called him a Jewish white supremacist way back in 2007).  Thanks to him, we now can.  They said that one of the virtues of Zionism ...
• After Mossad Cloned British Passports to Kill ...
  In its assassination conspiracy against Mahmoud al-Mabouh, the Mossad cloned the legitimate passports of numerous Israeli dual-nationality citizens, among them several from Britain.  As a result, Mossad station chiefs were ejected from several major western capitals.  For the second time in th ...
• Subscriber Plugin Problems
  600 of my readers subscribe to this blog via two plugins I use.  They receive e-mail notices of new posts I write.  I’ve just had the terribly unwelcome news that 388 of those subscribers have been wiped out through some act of God I don’t understand.  So if you were used to receiving a daily ...
• Arab Democratic Revolution: Bringing It All Ba ...
  Larry Derfner wrote a suggestive column in the Jerusalem Post about what he hopes is the coming Palestinian democratic revolution.  It got me to thinking about how such a thing might happen.  Before I lay out my ideas I want everyone to understand that I do this not as a Palestinian, so I assu ...
• The Israel Project on Arab Revolutions: ‘Good ...
  The Forward brings to us one of the most unintentionally funny articles of the week exploring how the Israel lobby is trying to get the Arab democratic revolutions to work for Israel, rather than against it.  Jennifer Lazlo-Mizrahi, married to the deputy head of Israel’s DC embassy and one of ...

Ode Magazine

• Q&A: Philipp Blom
  During the 18th century, intellectuals laid the foundation for modern Western society, in which reason and social progress rule. Many of the thinkers came together in a Parisian salon that is the décor of German historian Philipp Blomâs new book, A Wicked Company: The Forgotten ...
• In praise of pessimism
  What’s an intelligent optimist to do with a book that glorifies pessimism, a book by a philosopher known for his ultra-conservative views? Certainly, reading The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope is enough to raise your hackles. But Roger Scruton deserves to ...
• The look (and smell) of love
  Listen to your basic instincts when you think youâre falling for someone. Michael is a well-known New York psychotherapist. He’s 45 and recently divorced. Since he’s a therapist and understands the importance of positive thinking, he describes himself as “in between re ...
• Voss’ ark
  At his Florida farm, Jeff Voss provides a home to the Watusi (pictured here) and many other exotic animal species.Photo: Jeff Voss By day, Jeff Voss manages portfolios and analyzes cash flows; by night, he tends exotic animal species at Briley Farm, a private 60-acre p ...
• Wonder wall
  wonder wallPhoto: urbanarbolismo You can take in San Vicente del Raspeig’s main square at a glance: town hall, library, concert hall. The only thing the center of this rural town near Valencia, Spain, was missing was plant life. Or so thought Jose Maria Chofre, of the ...

OpEd News

• Another Corporate-Inspired War?
  Of course America will use humanitarian reasons for intervening in Libya. Undoubtedly, the killing of dissidents will be the overt reason for military intervention. American citizens will find reasons to bear the cost of military operations and the loss of life from military operations against C ...
• "This Week in WikiLeaks Podcast" - The Corpora ...
  The fourth episode of this weekly podcast, which looks at stories related to WikiLeaks from the past week, featured guest Kevin Zeese, who is with the Bradley Manning Support Network and WikiLeaksIsDemocracy.org , which is a project dedicated to preventing the prosecution and extradition of Assa ...
• Apology to Keith Olbermann
  after a well intended error, OEN apologies to Keith Olbermann for posting an article without permission.
• Julian Assange: A Sleazy Anti-Semitic High-Tec ...
  Anyone following WikiLeaks and the releases of US State Embassy Cables it has been coordinating with newspapers around the world has no doubt been confronted with details on the organization's founder Julian Assange. True or not, many allegations that seem to be nothing more than gross attempts ...
• Inside Gaddafi's Torture Chambers - in Tandem ...
  Al Jazeera has just released a video documenting Gaddafi's torture chambers, while, meanwhile, Gaddafi tries to pull a propaganda rabbit out of his swollen hat with the same al Qaeda canard that the US has used to justify its endless "War on Terror". So now we have a unique moment to observe and ...

Switchboard

• Frequently Asked Questions About the REINS Act
  Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY) have introduced Congressional legislation called the REINS Act, or Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2011. This Tea Party-corporate legislation is custom made to weaken health, safety and environme ...
• Transit-based industrial development
  Almost all discussion of transit-accessible development that I have been part of has revolved around mixed-use neighborhoods and/or affordable housing.  Both are important and much needed. But so are transit-accessible jobs.  As the Center for Neighborhood Technology points out in ...
• As Dolphins Die, Gulf Restoration Task Force T ...
  In the Gulf, record numbers of dead baby dolphins are washing onto the shores of Mississippi and Alabama, creating frightening spectacles for families and their kids prowling the beaches. Tourists are bewildered by scientists slicing tissue samples from the lifeless baby mammals. ...
• Warning: Breathing Can Cause More Heart Attack ...
  You read it right. It seems that our addiction to dirty energy has taken another toll on our health, this time surpassing the effects of another deadly addiction—cocaine use. According to a new study published in The Lancet journal, air pollution triggers more heart attacks nationw ...
• Carter Niemeyer's Wolfer Part 2: Of Wolf Hyste ...
    Read Part 1: Thoughts on Wolf Wars Not long after wolves began wandering south from Canada into Montana in the mid 1980s, livestock depredations began, first on the east side of Glacier Park.  In his memoir Wolfer, Carter Niemeyer talks about what it was like to be among the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• UN Routinely Overlooks Male Rape Victims&#8230 ...
  Adam Jones and Augusta del Zotto made this case years ago, and so have I. Glad to note the New York Times has finally taken notice by publishing Lara Stemple’s excellent op-ed: AS disturbing new reports of male rape in Congo made clear, wartime sexual violence isnât limited to women and girls. ...
• Court Properly Upholds First Amendment Rights ...
  To its substantial credit, in an 8-1 ruling today the Court held that the civil suit against Fred Phelps violated the First Amendment. It’s hard to celebrate any victory for Phelps and his band of bigots, but that’s the point — you don’t need the First Amendment to defend popular speakers. Appro ...
• The Influence of Sea Power on the History of t ...
  Some thoughts on the maritime aspects of the uprisings in North Africa: Moving forward, naval forces may perform a larger role in the eventual outcome in Libya. Military intervention of some sort remains under active consideration by NATO and the U.N., with options spanning from a blockade to a ...
• Making Me Long for the Relatively Tolerant Bus ...
  It’s always nice to see conservative anti-immigration rhetoric boil down to the question of brown people speaking funny languages: Iâm at a hearing of the immigration subcommittee, and the pseudo-congressman from Puerto Rico is going on about how âweâ are a nation of immigrants. âWeâ? Puerto Ric ...
• Newt
  His ability to get the media to pretend that he’s relevant is remarkable. I also plan to use his rhetoric the next time I have a review deadline.  “I intend to consider the possibility of considering to submit my review at some indeterminate point in the future.  Possibly.”  If it’s good enou ...

Desert Research Institute

• Fighting an Infestation
  Kumud Acharya, Ph.D. has worked in Southern Nevada for the last four years studying the changing climate and its effect on the state’s water. Since coming to Las Vegas his focus has shifted to another problem, invasive species specially those living in Lake Mead.
• 2010 DRI Annual Report
  The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
• Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
  In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
• Building Concepts for Clarity
  Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
• Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
  Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.

Earth Techling

• Solowheel A Strange Electric Unicycle Thing
  The Solowheel electric self-balancing unicycle uses technology derived from gyroscopes, accelerating when you lean forward, slowing when you lean back.
• Funky Plastic Tree Wants You To Unplug
  The RAMO Branch Multi-Tap concept plugs into a wall socket, routes juice to your gizmos, and alerts you, via red and green LED lights, when it's time to unplug.
• Collecting Heat Energy From Asphalt Studied
  Tecnalia has announced that they will be working to develop a system that can trap heat energy from the sun's rays that are absorbed by asphalt paved surfaces.
• New Hydrogen Fuel Cell Type Being Developed
  Bing Energy has announced they are partnering with Florida State University to develop what it feels is a new form of fuel cell.
• South Dakota Wind Farm Gets Big USDA Loan
  Basin Electric Power was awarded recently a $240 million loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture for a 151.5 MW wind farm in South Dakota.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• ENERGY LAW: No clear path forward for energy p ...
  The new regulatory environment created by the Obama administration's EPA will present significant challenges that will need to be overcome by policymakers, electric utilities and project developers.
• In high court patent fight, tech and auto comp ...
  At oral argument before the high court in Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB, a key player was missing: the U.S. government. The solicitor general's office often participates in important patent cases like Global-Tech, but it sat this one out.
• Chicago, Howard are the best buy 'Go-To' law s ...
  The University of Chicago Law School and Howard University School of Law gave their 2010 graduates the most big-firm bang for their tuition buck. Those schools had the highest percentage of graduates taking first-year associate jobs at NLJ 250 law firms for the lowest tuition price.
• Court adds claws to cat's paw claims — b ...
  In a case involving an Army reservist, the Supreme Court on Tuesday broadened the potential liability of employers for job discrimination. The justices, in an 8-0 ruling, held that employers may be held liable when an unbiased supervisor fires an employee based on the actions of a biased lower-l ...
• Justices search for substance in arguments in ...
  U.S. Supreme Court arguments Tuesday in a closely watched dispute over the interrogation of child abuse victims quickly turned into a "where's the beef" discussion of whether a controversy remains between the parties in the case.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• EPA Wants to Look at Full Lifecycle of Frackin ...
  by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica, Feb. 9, 2011, 2:32 p.m The EPA has proposed examining every aspect of hydraulic fracturing, from water withdrawals to waste disposal, according to a draft plan the agency released Tuesday. If the study goes forward as planned, it would be the most comprehensive in ...
• Gas driller pays Pennsylvania state Senator Jo ...
  I received this comment from another blogger on this same article: “To paraphrase Jim Cramer, well known for his investment & corporate financial opinions on television and internet, the United States has the best government money can buy.” Published: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 11:04 PM Updated ...
• FrackTracker
  Here’s an exceprt from the blog at Fracktracker, a useful site for info and maps and visuals. The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft of its Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan, which is to be reviewed by the Science Advisory Board (SAB), a group of independent scientists that w ...
• A Comprehensive Website for News Headlines
  The below site, while not covering everything, does offers a lot of info in one place. Newspaper Headlines: http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Gas-Drilling_NEWS.htm
• Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
  Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...

News Blaze

• EPA Report Underscores Clean Air Act's Success ...
  The EPA report received extensive review and input from the Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, an independent panel of distinguished economists, scientists and public health experts established by Congress in 1991.
• Women's College Empowers Young Girls to Excel ...
  This list of achievers does not stop with the Physics department. In 2010, Anam Shahid Momin of the Zoology department got Rs 10,000 as prize money for scoring 80 per cent plus in her M.Sc First Year. And she dreams of topping the university in her
• MMS Porn Clips Unveil The Dark Side of Technol ...
  The Internet is like a global horse. The moment you mount any content on it, it is unstoppable. The reach of the Internet is so wide that the image is circulated online in no time. Slanderous online images outlive the victim and are traumatic for bo
• Gas Prices on The Up Again in Sacramento
  Including the change in gas prices in Sacramento during the past week, prices yesterday were 77.3 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 38.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
• 'Woody's Roundup' Song Wakes Up Crew Aboard Th ...
  'Woody's Roundup' a Riders In The Sky classic written by Randy Newman, was played in dedication to Drew as it woke the crew to begin preparing for the last docking to the International Space Station. The song is famously known for its use on the

environment 360

• U.S. Groups Seek Protection of African Lion to ...
  A coalition of wildlife groups is filing a petition with the U.S. Department of Interior to list the African lion under the Endangered Species Act, a designation that would make it illegal to import stuffed lions or lion skins and body parts into the U.S. — including those killed by Getty Image ...
• Growth of Geothermal Power Helping Colleges to ...
  Some U.S. colleges and universities are cutting their energy costs by 30 to 70 percent after installing geothermal energy systems, and widespread adoption of the technology could help the nation’s 4,100 colleges and universities save an estimated $2 billion to $7 billion annually. A report by th ...
• Half of World’s Turtles in Danger of Extinctio ...
  A new report says turtles and tortoises are the most threatened vertebrate animals on the planet, with more than half of their 328 species threatened with extinction. Seventeen of the 25 most threatened species Turtle Conservation CoalitionPinta Island Tortoise are from Asia, where overhunting ...
• Brazilian Judge Halts Plans for Controversial ...
  A Brazilian judge has ordered the suspension of work on the massive Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon, citing concerns over the project’s impact on indigenous tribes and the environment. Federal judge Ronaldo Desterro said that Brazil's Environmental Agency, IBAMA, had granted a license for the proje ...
• ‘Fracking’ Comes to Europe, Sparking Rising Co ...
  As concerns grow in the U.S. about the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to extract natural gas from shale, companies have set their sights on Europe and its abundant reserves of this “unconventional” gas. But from Britain to Poland, critics warn of the potentially hig ...

Red Ice Creations

• General Orders Probe into Mind Control of Sena ...
  The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is ordering an investigation into charges that an army unit trained in psychological operations was told to manipulate American senators to get more money and troops for the war. The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star gen ...
• Indoctrinate U
  More at: indoctrinate-u.com Indoctrinate U is a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney, on ideological conformism and political correctness in American higher education. Among other things, the film examines the use of institutional ...
• The Amazing Neem Tree
  Video from: youtube.com Neem (Azadirachta indica) has worldwide medicinal and agricultural applications as a non-toxic alternative to synthetic chemicals for both curing and preventing disease. Neem seed oil is like a dream come true for the old snake oil salesman...1001 uses out of a single bot ...
• State Controlled Consciousness - John Taylor G ...
  John Taylor Gatto is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. Excerpt from an interview by the Swedish tea ...
• Gadhafi militia open fire on Libya protesters
  Militias loyal to Moammar Gadhafi opened fire Friday on protesters streaming out of mosques and marching across the Libyan capital to demand the regime’s ouster, witnesses said, reporting at least four killed. Protesters came under fire from gunmen on rooftops said one man in the crowd, screamin ...

Russia Today

• Gaddafi’s nurse accused of drunken brawl aboar ...
  Galina Kolotnitskaya, a former personal nurse of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, had to return to her home country, Ukraine, where she immediately found herself in the center of a scandal.
• Russians evacuated from Libya reach Malta on f ...
  The ferry Sveti Stefan II with 397 people on board, among them 126 Russians and 21 CIS citizens, has reached Malta.
• Woman with military explosives detained in Mos ...
  A woman was detained in Moscow for possession of military high explosives.
• Who’s that cat they chose for the Olympic masc ...
  Biologists failed to identify the big cat which has been chosen as one of the three mascots of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
• Libyan authorities jam RT's Arabic channel
  RT’s Arabic sister channel Rusiya al-Yaum, broadcasting in Libya via the Nilesat (AB4) satellite, is being jammed.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

• WikiLeaks, Allnewsweb and the TEA Party
  When one looks at the above title, the individual has to ask, WTF? What could these three things have in common? Well, according to ‘Mirage Men‘ author, Mark Pilkington, not really a whole hell of a lot, just rampant opportunism: When the first mention of UFOs in the tranche of diplomatic paper ...
• Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
  Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
• More Paracast: George Filer
  Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
• The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
• Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
  Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...

Tippers News

• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

• Government to Stay Open Two More Weeks
  “House and Senate leaders on Tuesday bought themselves a little more time in their efforts to avoid a government shutdown, agreeing to a two-week funding extension that also includes $4 billion in spending cuts.” (Washington Post) Why are they toying with us? FEE Timely Classic “The Rise of Gove ...
• Auditors Identify Billions in Government Waste
  “With Congress and the White House set to debate the merits of huge spending cuts, federal auditors have identified hundreds of overlapping government offices and programs that if merged or eliminated could save taxpayers billions of dollars.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Eliminated would be b ...
• Guest blogging: Unions
  The recent conflicts in Wisconsin and other states over unions have a generated much heat but little light. That is because most discussion asks the wrong question and ignores the economics of unions. The right question is not whether unions are good or bad. A union is a voluntary association of ...
• “Clean Energy” and the Depressed Economy
  If clean energy is so wonderful and such a great investment, why do all of these ventures either have to be subsidized directly by tax dollars or indirectly by government mandates?
• Rising Prices Eat at Tax Cut
  “Rising food and energy prices ate away at the extra money workers received in January from a reduction in the payroll tax, according to government data released Monday, stalling the momentum in consumer spending.” (Washington Post) Easy come, easy go. FEE Timely Classic “Inflation in One Page” ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Web literacy: Should be required
  A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
• Can journalism education rise to the challenge ...
  Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
• HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
  Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
• Visual narratives: Empirical data
  From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
• Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
  I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For s ...

Facing South

• Gulf Coast restoration task force hearing show ...
  The president's Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force met yesterday in New Orleans to gather public comments for the plan it's working on to restore the region's ecology in the wake of last year's BP catastrophe. A major theme of those comments was the deep distrust that many of the regio ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Oil and death after BP
  Ten months after BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still uncovering evidence of the disaster's long-term repercussions. Number of aborted or stillborn baby dolphins that have washed ashore so far this week along Mississippi's coast: 4 Number of dead baby dolphins t ...
• Southern public workers: 'Welcome to our world ...
  In 1959, the state of Wisconsin, a hotbed of labor activism and progressive politics, became the first state in the nation to give public workers the right to bargain collectively. That same year, 1,000 miles away in North Carolina, state lawmakers -- stoked by Cold War anti-unionism and Jim ...
• Tennesseans rally for safer gas drilling
  Environmental groups are pressing the state of Tennessee to regulate "fracking," a controversial method of fracturing underground rock formations to release natural gas for drilling. The practice has been blamed for numerous cases of drinking water contamination nationwide. The Tennessee Oil an ...
• Aftershock: The disaster of hurricane recovery ...
  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of continent, a part of the main. -John Donne Don't dare tell the people of Bolivar they live on an island. "It's a peninsula, not an island," they will say. Geographically, they're right. The 34-mile spit of low-lying marsh and ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Su ...
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Will Freedom of Expression Hold in Southern Su ...
  With southern Sudan likely to find itself an independent nation, in addition to problems with healthcare, electricity and illiteracy, it may also face challenges to the freedom of its media.
• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

Telegraph UK - oil

• New Zealand earthquake: the vengeance of Mothe ...
  Whatever the cause of the increase in disasters, humanity has made their impact far worse, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• If the Saudis revolt, the world's in trouble
  The fate of the global recovery rests on events in Riyadh, says Jeremy Warner .
• Libya: BP suspends operations and evacuates st ...
  BP, the oil giant, has said today that it is suspending operations in Libya and evacuating expatriate staff and their families amid the escalating violence.
• William Hague 'lobbied strongly' for oil compa ...
  Exclusive: Foreign Secretary "lobbied strongly" in dispute involving oil companies who refused to pay tax.
• BP: Big Oil is never far from trouble
  After a year that brought BP to its knees, its shareholders will receive a dividend. They should enjoy it while they can, says Alistair Osborne.

Ian Welsh

• Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are ...
  Update 2: Well, well, well. That is impressive, the police essentially refused the order.  My hat is off to them.  This is an extraordinarily encouraging sign, in that it indicates that the security apparatus has limits to what it will do.  If elites1want real crushing, they’re clearly going ...
• A bit more on the oil trap
  People will not ship or produce if the cost to produce+ship is higher than what they can recoup.  There is a bottom on prices despite what the idiotic supply and demand curves in textbooks show.  Contrary to what they tell you in economics 101 supply and demand is not a law, there are significan ...
• European leaders draft a “competitivenes ...
  No, I’m not kidding. It includes: a debt brake which will stop countries from deficit spending beyond a target; automatic monitoring which can force pension cuts; a requirement to monitor wages and productivity and to then lower wages if they rise “too quickly” Every one of these are anti-worker ...
• One way the price of oil hurts the economy
  Promoted from comments: I work for a small freight forwarder. How small? My boss, and myself – that’s it. Last year we shipped over 61,250 million tons of beef, pork, and chicken; mostly to Australia and Hong Kong, but several smaller markets too. You pick up the product, stuff the container, an ...
• A bit more on the oil trap
  People will not ship or produce if the cost to produce+ship is higher than what they can recoup.  There is a bottom on prices despite what the idiotic supply and demand curves in textbooks show.  Contrary to what they tell you in economics 101 supply and demand is not a law, there are significan ...

Media Consortium

• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After D ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Science budgets win short-term reprieve from c ...
  The US House of Representatives has made its bid to avoid a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution to fund agencies until March 18. The bill keeps most science agencies funded at levels similar to their 2010 budgets and largely avoids implementing major cuts. The legislation stil ...
• NIH director as Ghostbuster in Chief? Not exac ...
  The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has responded to a letter sent to him last fall by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), a Washington- based watchdog group dedicated to exposing corruption. The letter documented several cases in which NIH grantees appeared to ...
• US bioethics commission promises Guatemala rep ...
  The group charged by President Barack Obama with examining research that intentionally infected unknowing Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940’s should be ready to report by early summer, its executive director announced at a Washington meeting today – the commission’s first public hearing touc ...
• UK announces major study of human development
  Some 90,000 babies born in the UK will grow up to become some of the most scientifically scrutinised in the world. The UK government announced today that researchers will track the group in a new multi-million pound ‘birth cohort’ study with the aim of understanding how social, economic and biol ...
• How much has the war on bioterror cost scienti ...
  A new study challenges the notion that post-9/11 rules which placed stricter limits on pathogens research stymied scientific productivity. In the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, and subsequent anthrax mailings, the US government instituted tougher controls on research into ...

new geography

• The Evolving Urban Form: The Valley of Mexico
  The last 60 years of urban growth in the Mexico City area should dispel any belief that suburban dispersion is principally an American phenomenon or even limited to the high income world. Over the last 60 years, all of the population growth in what is now called the Valley of Mexico metropoli ...
• Can Common Sense, and maybe Mickey, Save Orlan ...
  The week’s debate about high-speed rail has once again polarized our populace, inflamed irrationality, and sent everyone back to their familiar corners.  Little constructive debate is possible when major newspapers are flailing the governor for rejecting money and the seemingly global revolu ...
• Sputnik Moments, Spending Cuts, and (Remember ...
  The stand-off in Washington over spending reductions has pushed aside serious discussion about a far more pressing issue:  job creation. Granted, the country is long overdue for action on spending cuts. There is much that our government does that we can live without. Bureaucracies’ programma ...
• The State of Silicon Valley
  Every year, the top officials, policy wonks, and business managers convene at the annual State of the Valley conference to discuss and debate the health of the region. Over a thousand attendees trekked to San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 18 for the release of this year’s report. Published since 1995 ...
• What The Census Tells Us About America’s Futur ...
  With the release of results for over 20 states, the 2010 Census has provided some strong indicators as to the real evolution of the country�s demography. In short, they reveal that Americans are continuing to disperse, becoming more ethnically diverse and leaning toward to what might be called � ...

GM Watch

• Bayer in court: "We don't know how" GM rice co ...
• Why Patrick Moore calls us "a bunch of murderi ...
• Eight-nine percent of Americans want GM labeli ...
• Why Monsanto's GM seeds threaten democracy
• Agrotoxics spraying banned in Santa Fe, Argent ...

spiked

• Lady Gaga’s crazy anthem to biological d ...
  The pop megastar’s pro-gay hit ‘Born This Way’ confirms that even this manic queen of reinvention buys into modern notions of fate.
• ‘Please be aware, I might hit you now&#8 ...
  The British police’s bizarre new ‘riot brochure’ gives the lie to the idea that they’re more Orwellian than ever.
• ‘The artist formerly known as global war ...
  Two new plays show that climate change is better understood as a moral issue rather than a scientific one.
• Giving women ‘constrained choice’, ...
  Joan Wolf's new book is a brilliant broadside against the pseudo-scientific dogmatism of today's pro-breastfeeding lobby.
• Eco-towns: a parable of a wet and wimpy state
  Eco-towns, we were told, would help to 'save the planet' and provide thousands of new homes. Tim Black investigates why they were never built.

Cryptogon

• Two U.S. Warships, 1200 Marines Sent to Libyan ...
  Via: Wall Street Journal: Also Tuesday, the U.S. ordered two warships and 1200 Marines to the waters off of Libya, but a top Obama administration official stopped short of saying the forces would intervene in the clashes that have consumed the country following anti-Gadhafi protests here in rece ...
• Lawyer Says Sirhan Sirhan Was Brainwashed
  Via: ABC News: A lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan, the confessed assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, plans to present new evidence at a parole board hearing suggesting that he did not act alone, was potentially brain washed and cannot remember anything about the 43-year-old shooting. “There is no question he ...
• Congo Gold Smuggling Ring’s Big Texas Ti ...
  Via: Mad Cow Productions: A Dallas-based Gulfstream V luxury jet seized for gold smuggling last month by authorities in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also under investigation for drug running by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Gulfstream imp ...
• New Hampshire: Bill Would Make Some Airport Sc ...
  Via: WMUR: Lawmakers and residents engaged in heated debate Tuesday over a bill that would make random airport security pat-downs and body scans criminal in New Hampshire. The bill (HB628-FN) “makes the touching or viewing with a technological device of a personâs breasts or genitals by a govern ...
• Christchurch Earthquake: Need a Toilet?
  The situation around the lack of toilets in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. All this talk about having to import toilets from Australia and people trying to flag down workers, begging for toilets… Come on, people. Please try to spread ...

The Economic Collapse

• QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
  The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like "QE3" could be on ...
• Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Be ...
  Today budget cutters are on the rampage from coast to coast and often one of their first targets is public school teachers. What we have witnessed recently in Wisconsin is just one example of this. The truth is that you do not want to become a teacher if you want to have finan ...
• As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The H ...
  Barack Obama recently made the following statement to American families that are struggling to survive in this economy: "If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation." A few days after making that statement Obama sen ...
• Ashley’s Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking E ...
  What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it. Some time ago, a reader named Ashley sent me an email that described the nightmare that she has been living [...]
• Find A Job? Good Luck In This Economy – ...
  The U.S. government is telling us that the unemployment rate fell all the way down to 9.0% in January.  Should we all cheer?  Is it now going to be a lot easier to find a job?  Has the economy finally turned around?  Are happy days here again?  Well, it is a good thing to have [ ...

Desertification

• GM Foods Not the Solution (Google / The LInk)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/1068 No Evidence Quick-Fix Science is the Answer Alexander Oster In The Linkâs last issue, Christopher Hampson described current concerns of population growth, degradation of arable land, and food insecurity as problems ...
• China needs large-scale solutions, and Israeli ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/foreign-view/2011-03/628938.html Israeli water tech can help quench China’s thirst By Amos Nadai Despite vast differences in size, China and Israel share several challenges, water scarcity being among the most critical. Israe ...
• Women and Water (The Water Channel)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification Water Issues Announcement List In households across the world, it is mostly women who collect and manage water. They are responsible for maintaining sanitation in their family, and passing on hygienic practices … Continue reading →
• How to better manage Morocco’s rangeland ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5707&zoneid=33 Extension specialists teaching Moroccan group By Jim Sloan Several University of Nevada Cooperative Extension range management experts are teaching a group of Moroccan environme ...
• Malawi: crop quality improved and access to fo ...
  Read at : http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=57106?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eldis-agriculture+%28Eldis+Agriculture%29 The Strategic Development Programme in Malawi: crop quality improved and access to food increased Authors: S.W. Bie; S. Phiri Publ ...

The Paper Trail

• Reports On Gun That Killed U.S. Agent Highligh ...
  Reports that a Texas store was the source of a gun used to kill a U.S. agent in Mexico are bringing new attention to an issue that was the subject a Center investigation last month.
• GAO Cites Billions of Dollars in Duplication, ...
  It is one of the inexplicable facets of government: duplication across agencies and departments at a cost of billions of dollars to taxpayers.
• Equipment Failure at Refinery Leads to Toxic H ...
  A hydrofluoric acid leak from an oil refinery in Ohio last week sent a worker to the hospital and required the use of a “water cannon” to disperse the poisonous gas, underscoring the potentially perilous nature of a chemical used at 50 refineries across the country.
• Will Washington Pull the Plug on HAMP?
  The future of the Obama administration’s troubled $30 billion initiative to bail out beleaguered homeowners is on the line.
• Education Department Promises a Fix to Trouble ...
  After an investigation by ProPublica and Center for Public Integrity last week found that the Department of Education’s bureaucratic program for forgiving the federal student loans of disabled borrowers has kept many disabled applicants in debt, the department said this week that it will overhau ...

backofthebook.ca

• Revisited: “How I Got Arrested and Abuse ...
  On Friday, the CBC's The Fifth Estate broadcast "You Should Have Stayed at Home," about police tactics at the 2010 G20 Summit. Among those appearing in the documentary is Toronto playwright and director Tommy Taylor, whose harrowing account of his arrest and detention appeared on his facebook pa ...
• Welcome to Canada, Randy Quaid
  By Frank Moher Dear Randy Quaid: I hear Canadian authorities have decided to let you stay in Canada, and, indeed, that Canadian citizenship is now in the works for you. This because your wife's dad was Canadian, so she was able to get her citizenship earlier this month, which means you can ...
• Oda and da machine
  By Montreal Simon Oh. My. Mafia. I hear the Con mob in the PMO, now known as the Oda Gang, are desperate. The new boss is now claiming she couldn't have whacked KAIROS, because she has an alibi. She was out of town. So even though she owes her new position to ...
• Best Gaddafi speech one-liners
  Here, from our Twitter feed, the best one-liners from those watching the Gaddafi speech (and yes, he's still a murderous despot): InklessPW Paul Wells You see how far Libya is from Western standards of democracy when you see how little thought Gaddafi has given to set design. kady kady o' ...
• False news is good for you. Really.
  By Frank Moher The last time Avaaz.org organized an online petition, I wasn't too nice about it. But when it comes to "false news" -- yes, you read that right -- the activist organization is right on money. What is false news? Funny you should ask. I wondered exactly the same thing, ...

libcom

• Looking Toward Wisconsin: An Interview With A ...
  Wisconsin protests.jpg What follows is an interview with a comrade from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the recent events in the state's Capitol, Madison, over a few hours away. For more information on what ...
• Looking Toward Wisconsin: An Interview With A ...
  Wisconsin protests.jpg What follows is an interview with a comrade from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the recent events in the state's Capitol, Madison, over a few hours away. For more information on what ...
• Actions in Defense of Workers' Rights in OTTO ...
  otto_wawa_feb.jpg In the beginning of February 2011 a campaign has started against the exploitation of workers in a Dutch based OTTO temporary agency. Since then actions took place at several office ...
• Wisconsin – Next Stop, the General Strike!
  wisconsin_protest.jpg John E Jacobson gives a summary of the movement against Gov Walker's attack on pay, conditions and collective bargaining for state workers in Wisconsin and argues support for a ...
• International Anarchist Statement in Solidarit ...
  An international anarchist solidarity statement with the Harare 46. When Mohammed Bouazizi set himself alight he unwittingly ignited a wave of popular uprisings and rebellions that have spread like wildfire across North Africa and th ...

Free Range International

• It Takes A Clue
  Nothing will sour the morale of combat troops faster then the realization that the commander at the top receives frequent visits from the Good Idea Fairy.   Which is a good start point for explaining why  General Stanley A McChrystal took to the pages of Foreign Policy last week to explain the u ...
• Thugs, Mobs And Education
  The news this week has been dominated by the Lara Logan story.  Ms. Logan was the subject of  the most popular post in FRI history which can be found here.  Reactions to the news that Lara was subjected to “a brutal and sustained assault and beating” have cost at least one knucklehead his job ...
• Naw Zad
  I just did something which would have been suicidal 10 months ago.  My colleague Little Mac and I, in the company of a Marine tank officer and Naval surface warfare officer (he’s a fires guy by trade) just strolled around the town of Naw Zad with no body armor, no helmets, no riflemen escorting ...
• Ride For The Brand
  When I first started this blog I used to hammer away on a couple of themes which really bothered me.  The first was Provincial Reconstruction Teams which I maintain are, by design, unable to accomplish their assigned mission. The second theme had to do with the reason we remain in Afghanistan. O ...
• Shifting Sands
  With most of the world’s attention focused unfolding events in the Mideast now is a good time to shed some light on the current ground-truth in Afghanistan.  Sami the Finn is always a good place to start and he provides interesting perspective on the suicide bombing at Kabul’s at  the Finest s ...

The Story Behind the Story

• H1N1 and bird flu virus produce dangerous hybr ...
  By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG | Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:18pm EST HONG KONG (Reuters) – The H1N1 swine flu virus is compatible with a bird flu virus that is endemic in poultry in Asia and they can produce hybrid viruses packed with greater killing power, Chinese researchers warned on Monday. The scientists ...
• NEW-GENERATION FLU VACCINES APPROVED!!
  Feds awards $215 million pacts for flu vaccines WASHINGTON Drug makers Novavax Inc. and VaxInnate Inc. have won contracts worth a combined $215 million to develop flu vaccines for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The news sent shares of Novavax up 68 cents, or nearly 26 percent, ...
• Oba-Mao — SING ALONG (Thanks Alex Studer ...
  OBA-MAO http://64.4.56.87/att/GetAttachment.aspx?file=4a24a77c-3e7b-4f9f-ba97-6ad12c5446e6.mp3&ct=YXVkaW8vbXBlZw_3d_3d&name=T2JhLU1hbyBWMS5tcDM_3d&inline=0&rfc=0&empty=False&imgsrc=&entryPt=download&hm__login=atrueott&hm__domain=msn.com&ip=10.25.152.8&d=d4354&mf=32&hm__ts=Tue%2c%2001%20Mar%20201 ...
• Lincoln’s Monetary Policy for America (T ...
  ~ MONETARY POLICY (1865) ~ Money is the creature of law, and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national government. Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.  Capital has its proper place and is e ...
• Expose Written February 2009 Now Circulating G ...
  This was written back in 2009 — Beyond High Treason… US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property THIS IS AS REAL AND AS UGLY AS IT CAN GET! Connecting the dots… Dot #1 China begins its covert war on the FREE American republic in the 1950′s by taking over much of the PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG [...]

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Fergie Jenkins, Baseball Hall of Famer (Feb 2, ...
  Canada's only Hall of Famer talks with Peter about pitching fastballs and dealing with life's curveballs.
• Rex Murphy (Dec 18, 2010)
  We call him the wordsmith for his own amazing using of the English language - and part of that he gets from his voracious reading appetite of the works of others. Given the season, time for a visit from the one and only Rex Murphy, and his advice on the best books to give.
• Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 9, 2010)
  This month marks four years since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. There have been few dull moments during that time and certainly no lack of controversy. This week, with a new year starting and new issues facing his government, the Prime Minister is our guest.
• Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the AFN (Dec 6, ...
  He is one of Canada's most influential and powerful aboriginal leaders, yet few Canadians know anything about him. He's a new face on the landscape and this week, he's our guest in his first major interview.
• Brian Wilson, musician (encore), (Nov, 28, 200 ...
  This week, an encore presentation of one of our most memorable interviews from 2004 -- the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, the young California group that went head to head against the Beatles in the 1960s.

Scotts Contracting

• Sen. Ben Nelson is 2010 Porker of the Year!
  On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The results are in! Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the âwinnerâ of CAGWâs online poll for 2010 Porker of the … Continue reading →
• new reports from the Zero Energy Commercial Bu ...
  high levels of energy efficiency are the first, largest and most important step on the way to net-zero Scotts Contracting can assist you in making your Building a Net-Zero – Energy Efficient Property. Click Here to email for additional Information … Continue reading →
• Suggested Reading- Wall Construction Air and W ...
  On 2/26/11, Scott’s Contracting wrote: > The importance of location of the proper air barriers, vapor barriers > and water resistive barriers on the wall and the roles they play in highâperforming EIFS > > Evaluation of the Moisture Performance … Continue reading →
• MVC Green Notes-Mo Votes Conservation- Feb. 25
  On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Joseph Katz wrote: MISSOURI VOTES CONSERVATION Green Notes – February 25, 2011 In this email: Our Legislative Watch Opposing Special Favors for CAFOs Defending PROP C Conservation Lobby Day 2011 Become … Continue reading →
• A Personal Invitation to a Great Event!
  On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Kateri Callahan — Alliance to Save Energy wrote: Dear Readers: I write to personally invite you to the one event in 2011 that will feature leading policy makers, CEOs, energy ministers, … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gand ...
  If Obama can nullify an act of Congress, why can't juries and states?
• Drastic Cuts in Spending are Needed Now
  To avoid food riots spreading to the U.S., Washington must fix its fiscal and monetary problems.
• Hypocrisy of U.S. Foreign Policy Produces Terr ...
  U.S. support of tyrants betrays our principles and contributes to terrorism.
• Putting Things in Perspective
  The shooting in Tucson should make all Americans rethink our tragic War on Terror policies.
• Last Words Worth Acting Upon
  Richard Holbrooke knew we should end the war in Afghanistan.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• WikiLeaks: "Laundered" U.S. Helicopters Wind u ...
  A tale of two helicopters.
• The Turko-Persian Tandem
  Turkey and Iran are poised to become the fulcrum of a new world order.
• Contested Waters - Contested Texts: Storm over ...
  Disputes over the maritime border in the West Sea serve to exacerbate inter-Korean tensions.
• Leveraging Its Latest Nuclear Setback to Furth ...
  The Times's Broad and Sanger, along with ISIS's Albright, stoke the fires of Iran alarmism anew.
• WikiLeaks: AFRICOM's Gen. Ward the Beneficiary ...
  However irrational, Gaddafi was capable of both prescience and irony regarding his region's politics.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Eyewitness: 14 to 16 Year Old Police Forces wi ...
  “Every conceivable [military] force, except for the Army, was present on the streets. The Basij forces, plainclothes forces, the IRGC, police, Special Forces, emergency services personnel, and security forces were present on all Tehran streets in a widespread manner. Tehran’s atmosphere felt lik ...
• سرقت در موزه رفسنجان/ پنج شی تقلبی موزه ناپدید ...
  کرمان - خبرگزاری مهر: پنج شی تاریخی حوزه هلیل رود متعلق به پیش از میلاد مسیح در حالی از موزه مردم شناسی رفسنجان بدلیل نقص در سیستم حفاظتی موزه ربوده شد که مسئولان میراث فرهنگی اشیاء سرقت شده را تقلبی دانستند.read more
• Arab revolt: Could Oman turn into 'next Egypt' ...
  Observers are nervously watching Oman following unprecedented protests over the weekend, during which several people are reported to have been killed.read more
• Iranian Police clamp down on protests
  این بار مخالفان دولت با فراخوان قبلی در شهرهای تهران، شیراز و مشهد به دلیل بازداشت میرحسین موسوی و مهدی کروبی، رهبران حرکت اعتراضی موسوم به “جنبش سبز” به خیابان ها رفتند. read more
• Hillary Clinton: Libya may become democracy or ...
  Libya could become a peaceful democracy or face years of civil war, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told Congressional lawmakers.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Thinking Like Egyptians
  It’s extremely heartening to see Americans’ fascination with the popular uprisings in the Middle East, as well as speculation across the blogosphere about the potential to replicate them in the US. Massive turnout in Madison and other state capitals is very promising, as American workers realiz ...
• US Unemployment: 9.0% or 18.5%?
  The US Department of Labor announced last fall that they were going to alter the scandalous way they report unemployment figures – to more accurately represent the true number of jobless in the US. Don’t hold your breath. Nevertheless the figures they released for January 2010 (13.9 million or ...
• Egypt and the Mainstream Media
  Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions The mainstream media continues to tell us their fairy tale version of the Egyptian revolution: the Egyptian people won a Facebook revolution that lasted just eighteen days. As a result of massive street protests, the military junta ousted Mubarak, ...
• Update on Peer Teaching/Tutoring
  I have been asked to update a blog I originally posted in November with additional resources (on peer teaching/tutoring protocols and manuals. The are found at the end of the article. New Zealand’s (conservative) National government has spent the last year trying to implement “National Standard ...
• Egypt’s Invisible Labor Movement
  Egyptian Police Demanding Higher Wages and Better Working Conditions I get a very different picture of the Egyptian “revolution” from Al Jazeera and other international new sources than from the US media. The latter seems to focus exclusively on the massive street protests in Cairo and other Egy ...

Doug's Darkworld

• “How is the world ruled and led to war? ...
  The Arab Awakening continues. German tanks roll across Poland. Life goes on in America as if nothing is happening, as if the events unfolding in the Middle East are no more inconvenience than a brief rise in gas prices and a few images of demonstrators on TV. I mean, most Americans couldn’t find ...
• Gaddafi vows to die a martyr, I for one hope h ...
  And by the way, we’re all so screwed by what’s going on now. I should be at work but I just need to keep watching the news and following developments in Libya and elsewhere. Well, mostly reading stuff on line, watching the broadcast news is pretty annoying but I do so for the images they [...]
• World Revolution?
  The revolutionary movements now sweeping a dozen countries may very well herald a new chapter in world history. I mean, we are seeing simultaneously a number of events that even singly would have been one of the biggest stories of the year in the preceding decades. This is pretty incredible when ...
• Ten World War Two Allied military blunders (Pa ...
  This is the second part of ten Allied military blunders of World War Two. The comments I made at the beginning of the first article still apply. The only thing I would add is that I have tried to select lesser known blunders, especially ones that made for an interesting story. With no further ad ...
• The Voynich Manuscript, Shady Kilograms, Shyst ...
  So much for the good Berkeley weather. We’ve had torrential rain. Hail. Lightning. Wind. More rain. The cats wanted to go out this morning and when I held the door open, the wind blew them right back inside. They wisely decided they had some sleep to catch up on and didn’t want to go outside [.. ...

FourWinds10

• The Planetary Population Protection & Atmosphe ...
  Millions of tons of Aerosols which are now determined to contain Aluminum Oxide, Barium, Strontium, and Sulphur Hexafluoride Toxins appear to have been already sprayed upon the population of this country, Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and other nations on Earth. A Congressman Ron Paul supporter ...
• WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE BEING LIED TO!
  I took a walk along the beach Feb. 09, 2011. I had seen the many ads placed on your TV and news outlets all over the world paid for by BP proclaiming“The oil is gone and our beaches are clean”. The one that really gets me is how safe the seafood can be when this is what our beaches look like.   ...
• Keiser Report: Eco-Eco Disasters (E120)
  This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about eco-eco disasters, JP Morgan taking gold as collateral and Rand Paul's call for ending welfare to Israel. In the second half of the show, Max talks to investment adviser, Joshua Brown, about investing for freak weather and a dictator-fr ...
• Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: "The Gul ...
  *** FULL LENGTH 45 MINUTE EPISODE *** (Season 2, Episode 7) "The Gulf Oil Spill" The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has led to devastation along Louisiana's coast and in its fishing and tourism industries. But was it deliberate? Jesse Ventura leads his team into the bayou where they inves ...
• THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,00 ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After t ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to eco ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 ...
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Failure of U.S. Politicians to Open Electr ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Mike Holly, who is the Chairman of Sorgo Fuels in Crosslake, Minnesota. Sorgo is a company involved in the production of energy from sweet sorghum, and Mike can be contacted at smikeholly “at” gmail.com. In his artic ...
• Oil Back at $100
  Join the forum discussion on this post I am between flights and have been traveling for a few days, but wanted to get off a quickie on current oil prices. In hindsight, perhaps I was not aggressive enough with my predictions for 2011. My predictions covered two themes: Next generation biofuel ...
• A Closer Look at The Commission Report on the ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay was written by David Whelpton. David is a private investor in the oil and gas industry. His blog is Knowledge and Investing. Below, David goes through the highlights of the report to the President on the Deepwater Horizon disaster ...
• Due Diligence: How to Evaluate a Renewable Ene ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Doing Due Diligence To people who follow the energy industry closely, it’s a common occurrence to come across announcements from companies proclaiming to have developed the key to the ‘next big thing’ — for solving the worldâs energy crisis. Maybe they sa ...
• The Media’s Role in the Range Fuels Fiasco
  Join the forum discussion on this post Now that it seems that the mainstream media has finally caught on to the fact that something went terribly awry at Range Fuels, it is time for me to close the book on them. This will be my last Range Fuels story, but I think there is a [...]

Discovery Educator Network

• Little Bird Tales - Amy's Home
  Tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, writingby: amy musone
• Genii
  Tags: vocabulary, english, game, vocab, genii, edtech, languagearts, Eslby: Toni Olivieri-Barton
• Vyew
  Tags: collaboration, tools, meeting, webconferencing, webinar, vyew, web2.0, videoconferenceby: Toni Olivieri-Barton
• copyright
  Tags: copyright, learning, teaching, education, web2.0, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• History Tours - home
  Tags: history, googleearth, socialstudies, wiki, geography, social_studies, tours, google_earthby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Are You Eating the Saltiest Foods in America?
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Last month, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its new dietary guidelines, you could almost hear a simultaneous yawn across America. Many dieticians criticized its "more-of-the-same" recommendations that are clearly not working to keep our nation's weight a ...
• Live Longer: Eat Fiber, New Study Says
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—High-fiber recipes have a reputation for being healthy, but did you know that a high fiber diet could be lifesaving? Getting enough fiber in your diet has already been linked with weight loss and a lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. Now a new study ...
• Our 5 Favorite Lessons Learned from Plastic-Fr ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Rodale.com's Plastic-Free February has officially ended, and with it, Rodale.com editors' stressing over whether to buy organic bananas in plastic, or how to do their hair for a TV appearance without resorting to products in plastic bottles. Now, along with the many blog ...
• 5 Facts about Fracking Every Family Needs to K ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Fracking may not be a household word yet, but we've been talking about this form of natural gas drilling—and its potential effects on your family's health—for some time. Now it seems more voices are about to join the conversation. On Saturday, a ranking congressman on t ...
• Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Smart People Eat Healt ...
  RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—If someone asked you the difference between omega-3 fats and trans fats, would you scratch your head? That could mean you need more of the former, and less of the latter. The food you eat can have a powerful effect on your mood. You don't have to be addicted to sugar to e ...

big think

• Volcanoes of the World, Third Edition: A Revie ...
  Volcanoes of the World - Third Edition by�Lee Siebert, Tom Simkin and Paul Kimberly (Smithsonian Institute/University of California Press - 2011) Some people love books filled with tiny lists and tables more than others. I tend to be in the "love" category, likely because of all the baseball . ...
• Powering Social Networks for Humanitarian Cris ...
  Humanitarian crises come in many forms: the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and floods in Pakistan; the malnourished refugees escaping war torn Sudan in the beginning of this century; the widespread famine in Ethiopia in 1984; and the stream of refugees running from the violence in Libya into Tunisia t ...
• How to Reverse Aging
  Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed by Paul Cellura ...
• Rainbow Connection: Rock Music Illuminated by ...
  “It never phased him that we’d call out different tunes from the stage and change the set around endlessly to stop from being bored,” Radiohead front man Thom Yorke says of the group’s lighting and stage designer Andi Watson. “It meant that it became less of a show of self aggrandizement for the ...
• 504 – Bordering on Bizarre: Google Maps Fail i ...
  In a mere decade and a half, Google has gone from cuddly online startup to scary virtual colossus. The internet search engine offers a range of services that now also include mapping, translation, advertising, email, and blogging, to name but a few. Government agencies on both sides of the .. ...

Information Liberation

• Monopoly: A Nice Trick If You Can Do It
  One question that*s frequently raised about market anarchism:* How would you prevent the economy from being taken over by monopolies, if we didn*t have anti-trust regulations and other restrictions on corporate abuses of power?* Without anti-trust la...
• Seattle Business Refuses To Serve TSA Agents
  A Seattle cafe has sensationally banned TSA workers from entering its business premises, refusing service as a consequence of the odious reputation the agency has required in the aftermath of a nationwide revolt against invasive pat down procedure...
• Parents: Do NOT Trust the Police!
  *Tim,* an 11-year-old child in Arvada, Colorado, was abducted from his home at gunpoint. The perpetrators of this violent criminal act insist that it was justified by the fact that the youngster, who is under the dubious care of a *therapist* for a p...
• Drug-War Idiocy in Oklahoma
  More proof that licensing of lawyers doesn*t guarantee that judges won*t engage in judicial idiocy comes out of the state of Oklahoma. Three days before Christmas, a state judge named Susie Pritchett, whose retirement would become effective on ...
• Florida Town Harassing Homeowners Over "Illega ...
  WJXT Jacksonville reports: ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- St. Johns County officials said they've found a new way to crack down on unwanted signs lining their county's roads. They said they're getting back at the people behind the signs with unwanted ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repa ...
  It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
• The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nat ...
  The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
• U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
  Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
• Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
  G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
• Stealing Democracy?
  G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Spectral science selection
  Aussie rock rolls The oldest fossils of bacteria ever found were discovered in a rock formation in Western Australia, the discovery led to great excitement that has not abated for more than two decades. Until now. Raman spectroscopy shows that what palaeontologists thought were pristine microbia ...
• Three touches of science
  Backstage Science – Find out what's going on backstage at some of the biggest science labs.  - Videos for the Science and Technology Facilities Council by Brady Haran. The Alchemist Newsletter: February 25, 2011 – Van Gogh was apparently no chemical genius, The Alchemist learns this week, but mo ...
• Six slick science picks
  Science video widget – Shortform offered me a sneak preview of their video widget, which allows users to embed a video channel into their blog. Contraceptive pill not to blame for feminized fish – Despite claims that excreted contraceptive hormones are causing endocrine disruption in aquatic ani ...
• Five picks from the science news
  Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation scores can make millions of pounds difference in the financial outcomes of national Research Asses ...
• Can we count on journal metrics?
  How do you rank science, how do you rate scientists, what kudos do you give their papers and what metrics do you attach to the impact of a paper? They’re questions as old as the scientific literature itself. But, no one has resolved them. Independent organisations and publishers have attempted w ...

RFF Library

• Integrated Science Assessment for Ozone and Re ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/isa/recordisplay.cfm?deid=217463 EPA released the First External Review Draft of the Integrated Science Assessment for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants for peer review and public comment. Ozone (O3) is one of ...
• Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/global/recordisplay.cfm?deid=233190 This draft report investigates the issues and challenges associated with identifying, calculating, and mapping indicators of the relative vulnerability of water quality and aquatic ...
• A Framework Incorporating Community Preference ...
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=75214 The purpose of this report is to enable states and authorized tribes — and their associated communities — to make informed decisions about their water bodies while complying with the pr ...
• What Drives the Development of the Insurance S ...
  World Bank / by Erik Feyen, Rodney Lester, and Roberto Rocha http://tinyurl.com/4pd5z4f The insurance sector can play a critical role in financial and economic development. By reducing uncertainty and the impact of large losses, the sector can encourage new investments, innovation, and competiti ...
• Designing Climate Change Adaptation Policies: ...
  World Bank / by Stephane Hallegatte, Franck Lecocq, and Christian de Perthuis http://tinyurl.com/46pj6wo Adaptation has long been neglected in the debate and policies surrounding climate change. However, increasing awareness of climate change has led many stakeholders to look for the best way to ...

Scientific American - News

• How National Security Depends on Better Lithiu ...
  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer--and any of the stacks in the new breed of electric vehicles--is made from it. Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium-water battery could be both cheap and powerful. Now batte ...
• Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Process ...
  A massive distributed computing network known as the Einstein@Home project has made its second big celestial find in the past six months--a pulsar 15 kilometers in diameter located more than 30,000 light years from Earth. Not a bad track record for a network that runs on processing power donat ...
• Pumping Oil with Sunshine [Slide Show]
  How do you make mirror-concentrated sunlight cheaper than burning natural gas? Put it in a greenhouse, argues new solar start-up GlassPoint, which unveiled its first such solar hot water greenhouse on February 24--in a dusty, old oil field in California's Central Valley. Why? Because cheap ste ...
• Amateur Cartographers Map Local 'Food Desert'
  The Brooklyn Food Coalition held its data entry party on the Monday after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That night was especially dry and cold; even indoors, everyone was bundled in sweatshirts and scarves. Above couches on which eight volunteers sat with laptops perched on their knees, there hun ...
• The Education of Jennifer Miller: An Update fr ...
  As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th-grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design. Eleven parents of students in the Dover Area Schoo ...

RAWA News

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frogblog

• Greens soldier along with the clean up army
  I’ll be going door-to-door again today in some of Christchurch’s hard hit eastern suburbs. A small group of Greens are now attached to the Student Volunteer Army. Yesterday, as a team of five, we were in Parklands. ( Thanks to Marilyn, Anne, Dot and Liz.  Thanks also to Nick, a local in Parkla ...
• Advertising for a disability champion
  I’m delighted to announce that the Human Rights Commission is now advertising the position of Disability Commissioner on their website. People with the relevant skills and passion for inclusion can now apply for the role. I am thrilled that my Bill contributed to this moment, and pleased that th ...
• Lyttelton Street Party – 26 February 201 ...
  Great to see!
• Gasland – doco about gas drilling
  I just watched “Gasland” and I highly recommend it. It’s a documentary about natural gas drilling and it’s impacts on the people living nearby. Trailer below. At the end of the trailer a guy ignites the water coming out of his tap! It’s had good reviews from many people: Mark Kermode of BBC Rad ...
• General debate, March 1, 2011
  Please remember to observe two minutes of silence at 12:51pm today to show respect for the Christchurch earthquate victims.

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
  Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
• What should be done with illegal immigrants?
  That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
• A Revolting World
  Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
• Demented Democracy
  An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...
• Pity the Poor Economists
  The first thing a judicious reader notices is how much disagreement exists among economists on almost every, perhaps every, matter. Then it becomes clear that much of this disagreement is acrimonious. Some of these people appear to hate each other. Now ask yourselves, how likely would it hav ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• What Do Republicans Really Want?
  What do Republicans really care about? Cutting the deficit, or cutting taxes on rich people? The AP reports, you decide: The IRS has dramatically increased its pursuit of tax cheats in the past decade: Audits are up, property liens are up and asset seizures are way up. President Barack Ob ...
• Chart of the Day: Corporate Non-Taxes
  From CBPP, the chart below shows how much American corporations have paid out in taxes over the past 60 years. It's hovering around 1% of GDP these days. As Chuck Marr says, "Although the top statutory corporate tax rate is high, the average tax rate — that is, the share of profits that comp ...
• Cutting Costs with Cheaper Drugs
  Here's another tidbit from today's GAO report on reducing costs by eliminating duplicative efforts: The Departmentof Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) spent about $11.4 billion on prescription drugs for beneficiaries in fiscal year 2009. �Since the early 1980s, Con ...
• Huckabee and the Birthers
  Mike Huckabee says he's not a birther. Oh sure, when radio host Steve Malzberg quizzed him about it on Monday he admitted that "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough." And he went on to express his concerns about Obama being raised in Kenya, even though Obama wasn't, in fa ...
• Bernanke: Budget Cuts Will Hurt the Economy
  Fed chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today that Republican budget cuts probably would have a modest negative effect on the economy: Bernanke [] threw some cold water on recent studies by two leading economic forecasting groups that suggested Republicans' proposed $60 billion budget cut wou ...

Insanity Report

• FacePalm of the Week: Defunding Planned Paren ...
  Twitter is great for many things.  Keeping in touch with friends, networking, promotion, etc.  One thing it seems especially good at though, is making me aware of other people’s complete and utter “Fullofshitness”.  I mean it’s one thing to misspell a word here or there, but with people like Tyr ...
• IC 231: Cocaine is a Helluva Drug
  Topics for the show: All natural ice cream……..with breast milk? Ciara vs Rihanna Twitter beef between celebrities…how stupid can they get? Spell check…….use it Charlie Sheen is 100% sober….yeah right Charlie Sheen and Alex Jones prove crazy always needs a companion Former Rep. Chris Lee has more ...
• IC 230: The Orange Walrus
  Topics for the show: Revisiting Detroit’s plan for a Robocop statue Ryce & Kriss recap some lesson’s learned from the Ski trip Kanye gives his opinion on abortion but he should really just shut up An anti-abortion billboard targeted at African Americans The Obama Administration stops defending t ...
• Some People Deserve to Be Punched in the Throa ...
  What would Black History month be without some bullshit like this? Let me get this straight.  The most dangerous place for an African American is a womb because of the exploding outbreak of abortions right? oh ok. Funny, when we’re not talking about abortion everyone seems to be complaining abo ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Glenn Beck Throws Stone ...
  I’ve been away for almost a week due to vacation so I’m still trying to catch up on all the things going on in the world. When this happens I can usually count on one of three people to help get me back on the path of tracking insanity: 1. Sarah Palin 2. Michele Bachmann [...]

Simple Climate

• Soot and methane cuts promise threefold benefi ...
  Called on by groups including the G8 to examine the science behind limiting emissions of short-lived substances causing climate change, the United Nations Environment Partnership finds just 16 control measures can boost climate, farming and health.
• Evidence of humans’ role in deluges starts to ...
  Scientists find the first evidence that humans are causing extreme rainfall, while the identification that greenhouse gas emissions increased the odds of 2000’s record rainfall in the UK are set to open the flood gates for telling whether humans have influenced extreme weather events.
• Atlantic cold tongue tells of humans’ cl ...
  Aerosol emissions are more responsible than global warming for weakened trade winds, but pollution controls look set to show how government rules can reverse changes we have caused.
• Climate researchers warn of food and forest ti ...
  With food prices reaching record highs, worsening droughts in east Africa will add to agricultural problems, while a parched Amazon could speed rather than fight global warming.
• 2,000 year water temperature high underlines A ...
  Average temperatures of water flowing into the Arctic since 1890 are 2ºC higher than they have been on average in the previous two millennia, Robert Spielhagen and colleagues show.

e!Science News

• Researchers predict age of T cells to improve ...
  Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and neuroblastoma. read more
• The dusty disc of NGC 247
  The spiral galaxy NGC 247 is one of the closest spiral galaxies of the southern sky. In this new view from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope in Chile large numbers of the galaxy's component stars are clearly resolved and many glowing pink clouds of hydrogen, marking region ...
• New national study finds boxing injuries on th ...
  The risk and nature of injury in the sport of boxing has generated a great deal of controversy in the medical community, especially in relation to youth boxing. A new study, conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's H ...
• Just like me: Online training helpers more eff ...
  Opposites don't always attract. A study from North Carolina State University shows that participants are happier – and perform better – when the electronic helpers used in online training programs resemble the participants themselves. read more
• Sugarcane bioethanol: Environmental implicatio ...
  Researchers have long promoted biofuels produced from crop biomass as an environmentally sustainable source of renewable energy. A recent study questions whether the potential climate benefit of sugarcane ethanol is diminished when emissions from land use management are considered. read more

unEarthed

• Tr-Ash Talk: Dam Shame
  When regulators and polluters forget the lessons of Tennessee If you live in Indiana, it’s best not to live below one of the state’s 53 coal ash dams. The state’s laissez-fare attitude toward these deadly structures has created ...
• EPA On Clean Air Act: 160,000 lives saved last ...
  Lifesaving total will increase to 230,000 in 2020 Despite the House GOP majority attempting to squash our clean air, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
• Radioactive water being dumped into our rivers ...
  NY Times investigation uncovers more dirty secrets about fracking The recent New York Times investigation into the dangers posed to our air and water by fracki ...
• Thanking House Leaders Who Stood For Clean Ai ...
  North Carolina resident thanks Rep. Mike McIntyre in a letter Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC) voted against the cement kiln amendment. This week has been a welcom ...
• Arctic Alarm - Time To Agree On Environmental ...
  Drlling plans proceed despite inability to clean up oil spills Oil platforms along Gompertz Channel and Cook Inlet. © Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com ...

Brave New Climate

• A toy model for forecasting global temperature ...
  A little over two years ago, I wrote the following post on BNC: How hot should it have really been over the last 5 years? In it, I did some simple statistical tinkering to examine the (correlative) relationship between global temperatures and a few key factors, namely greenhouse gases, solar irr ...
• Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate cli ...
  This is a modified version of the full conference paper. This is the most up-to-date executive summary available, written for a general — albeit technically conversant – audience, of the Integral Fast Reactor: 91st American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Seattle, WA  Sec ...
• Open Thread 9 – technosolar catastrophe?
  This is the first Open Thread of 2011. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat shoul ...
• Safeguarding the nuclear fuel cycle
  Guest Post by Dr. William Hannum. A member of the Science Council for Global Initiatives, Bill worked for more than 40 years in nuclear power development, stretching from design and analysis of the Shippingport reactor to the Integral Fast Reactor. He earned his BA in physics at Princeton and hi ...
• Gas aplenty, but UAE opts for nuclear – ...
  Dr Ziggy Switkowski (former CEO of Telstra, Optus and Kodak, recently retired Chairman of ANSTO, and now Chancellor of RMIT University) recently had an excellent article published in the Australian Financial Review. Unfortunately, there is no online version available, so for those who missed the ...

Indigenist Opinion

• John John: The View From Occupied Canada #234
  Imperialist hands off Libya! The United States and the European powers are moving towards direct military intervention in Libya. They are seeking to exploit a legitimate popular uprising against the 41-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, preempt any possibility of a more radical regime emerging, and i ...
• SOUTH LEBANON: US neo-cons urge Libya interven ...
  SOUTH LEBANON: US neo-cons urge Libya intervention By JIM LOBE, Al Jazeera In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military ...
• The World Is Getting Crazy
  The World Is Getting Crazy: [firstperspective.ca] "There are at least 30 major wars or conflicts going on in the world today as I write this. Millions of people are being harassed, abused, starved and forced from their homes. Thousands are being wounded and killed. Most of these wars involve gre ...
• Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop
  Imperial Feminism : Culture Mop: "It is important to recognize the brutality that occurred in the streets of Cairo that day and the days that followed, as well as the ongoing harassment of women in Egypt. We should not deny the clear and disturbing reality of this problem. However, it is not fai ...
• Katherine Franke: A Gay Rights Angle on the Eg ...
  Katherine Franke: A Gay Rights Angle on the Egyptian Revolution?: "They were tried before an Egyptian Emergency State security court -- a creation of President Mubarak in 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. In November, 2001, the defendants were brought into court and were pro ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Governor Walker – When Will You Have The ...
  You want to jerk around state employees, and unions, all to make up for the money you refuse to collect from corporations and billionaires. They don’t pay near their fair share, and you want working families to make up the difference.
• Arrest Clarence Thomas
  Many others have been prosecuted for lying on their financial disclosure forms. Why is it that Clarence Thomas can commit a crime any 3 year old could prosecute successfully, and not be charged? Are we a nation of laws? If not, I should go steal some money….
• Koch Brothers #1 In Global Warming – Sto ...
  To do anything about human caused climate change, it takes legislation. To move legislation you need support. To restrict support of legislation needed to keep global warming from destroying the lives of BILLIONS the Koch Brothers are #1 in spending money and energy to stop legislation dealing w ...
• Other Than Starting the Destruction of the Mid ...
  What did Ronald Reagan really accomplish? I mean besides beginning the process of turning America into the largest debtor nation on the planet. Taking down the solar panels from the roof of the White House set the tone for more oil addicion. The list goes on all the way to hell. Ronald Reagan wa ...
• Governor Scott Walker Breaks Multiple Laws
  Can anyone say perp walk?

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

• Overcoming Divide and Conquer Strategies: 99.9 ...
  The global bankers, who caused our economic crisis, are attempting to deflect blame and divide the American public by escalating attacks on public-sector workers.
• Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Ne ...
  By David DeGraw, If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.
• Welcome to the New AmpedStatus.com
  We're back with a redesigned site and three new features! Introducing the AmpedStatus Social Network and two new Amped Coverage wires.
• Time to Fight Back! Join The Movement
  As a broad-based network representing people across the political spectrum, we are working together to reach common ground and fight for pivotal political reforms. As long as the economy and government are rigged in favor of the top economic 0.1%, we will all lose.
• Horrific Arizona Massacre Is A Sign of Tragedi ...
  Let This Tragedy Be A Wake Up Call. Given Socio-Political Conditions, Many More Violent Acts On the Way.

+972

• The Arab revolutions did not happen because of ...
  The revolutions that toppled Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mubarak were not planned on Facebook, and they did not gather momentum on Twitter. Social media is a useful tool for many things, but critical mass can only be achieved through old-fashioned, face-to-face people power By Maath Musleh As ...
• At J-Street, new terms describe Israeli realit ...
  It's time to start calling things by their real name, and finding the language to describe Israel as it is today - and how we'd like it to be in the future.
• Netanyahu’s promise to dismantle outpost ...
  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced yesterday his intention to legalize dozens of tiny settlement outposts in the West Bank, which were built over the last decade, without formal authorization by the Israeli government, reports Haaretz. At the same time, he declared his intention to dism ...
• J Street Conference Update II: Beyond the Left ...
  One of the biggest criticisms of the left-wing and its arguments is that they have failed to convince others outside their camp. It’s not a genuine argument in the long-run, given how many top Israeli leaders have over the last two decades, at least described sea changes in policy – even if they ...
• J Street Conference Update I: Do Israelis Care ...
  Do Israelis care about peace? Judging from the packed room, this question was on many people’s minds following the controversial Time Magazine article arguing that they don’t. I presented data and analysis to explore the question; a number of people asked to have the material on-line, so here is ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Orange City Pipeline project gets go-ahead
  The Australian Government and NSW Government today signed off on a plan to deliver the Orange Pipeline project connecting the Macquarie River to Orange.
• Victorian Government must provide information ...
  The Commonwealth Government has demanded the Victorian Government provide all relevant information about its reintroduction of cattle grazing to the Alpine National Park within two weeks.
• Support for Murray-Darling Basin communities
  Tony Burke, Minister for Water, today announced that the Gillard Government will invest in Murray Darling Basin communities with support to implement water savings initiatives.
• Wilgie Mia on National Heritage List
  Wilgie Mia, an ochre mine near Cue in the Murchison district of Western Australia and used for centuries by Indigenous people, will be added to Australia's National Heritage List.
• Australia Pacific LNG project gets environmen ...
  Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, has approved, with strict environmental conditions, the Australia Pacific LNG project at Gladstone proposed by Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Unrestricted Warfare- How The Chinese Have Att ...
  I have found this book and published the entire document a the bottom.  This is terrifying stuff. WHAT DO AMERICANS GAIN BY TOUCHING THE ELEPHANT? If we acknowledge that the new principles of war are no longer “using armed force to compel the enemy to submit to one’s will,” but rather are “usin ...
• Economic Warfare- Fraudclosuregate is Just One ...
  Nothing in this current economy makes any sense.  The stock market should not be humming along….and I don’t even trust what that means anyway.  Wall Street should not have reported its fourth most profitable year on record in 2010.  Our unemployment numbers quoted are wholesale lies.  Real p ...
• RED ALERT! RED ALERT!- THE NON JUDICIAL FORECL ...
  Last year the Florida Legislature made a late session move to remove foreclosure cases from the supervision of judges.  THAT DANGEROUS LEGISLATION IS BACK! While the bill as drafted applies on to commercial properties, this is a dangerous step toward turning the whole state into a non judicial f ...
• Washington Times- Fraudclosuregate is The Fron ...
  The domestic, internal battles in these foreclosure wars are not many, many years old.  There still exists much confusion by legislators, judges, policy makers and the American people about the details leading up to the slow speed crash of the United States Economy that continues on even today.  ...
• Arzuman- In doing so, the plaintiff’s case fel ...
  The Florida Rules of Civil Procedure Mean Something. How much they mean remains to be seen. arzuman Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

• consumption and capital | economics news at ab ...
  Why sharing (spending) the wealth may not help society improve, at least in the short term. And why the more puritan saving of capital may help in the long term (if you can stand the pain).
• without iran, the olympics must be cancelled - ...
  Um, since when does '2012' read 'zion'?
• if only hillary were president - speech to un ...
  Excellent, measured speech on the stance the West should take regarding Libya and human rights.
• so, un finally gets its finger out and declare ...
  Gaddafti may not be certifiably mad, but he is certainly extremely bad. Now to deal with him.
• "to keep the accountability police at bay" - h ...
  Examples of educational psycho- and socio-babble from people who want to avoid accountability.

The Parallel Parliament

• Beating ‘Em In The Alley
  Hockey legend Conn Smythe was by all accounts a fierce competitor, though fair. His most famous quote was characteristically blunt: “If you can’t beat them on the ice, you can’t beat them in the alley.” I wonder what he’d think about what’s going on in the House of Commons this month? The Harper ...
• Affording Democracy – All We have Left
  This is the last post in the “Affording Democracy” series, but it’s likely the most important. One of the most pivotal moments in our history was when we stopped saying “we as Canadians” and began saying “They the government.” It fails to serve the public interest and leaves citizens and their r ...
• Affording Democracy – Canadian Idle
  When public services are only driven through a partisan lens, the effects on a country like Canada can be devastating, in part because they occur below the surface and away from the public eye. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Look at this chart. We’ve heard repeatedly in the last tw ...
• Affording Democracy – Pushing the Noun
  At the end of the classic movie Inherit the Wind, lawyer Spencer Tracy casts a skeptical look at the journalist played by Gene Kelly and remarks, “You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” Even back then (1960) the media was seen as more interested in sensationalism th ...
• Affording Democracy – “Morning In ...
  So, it’s “Morning in America” again. The Republicans and the Tea Party recently celebrated what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday by calling on the country to finish the revolution he started. This wouldn’t only be devastating for an America struggling under so many loads, it would ...

Vaccine Awakening

• WA State Vaccine Law Threatens Exemptions & Vi ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher If you are a resident of Washington state, you should know that there is a bill quietly sailing through your state legislature that violates your privacy and threatens your right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. House Bill 1015 1 and Senate Bill ...
• New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion ...
• Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflamma ...
• Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Informati ...
• Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
  by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health ...

2020 Science

• Obama’s 2012 budget does not bode well for saf ...
  In one of the more bizarre yet less publicized proposed cuts in the 2012 Obama budget, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers are on the chopping block.  Bizarre, because the move is directly counter to Obama’s push on innovation and education a ...
• Davos 2011 – Committed to changing the state o ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. As it did last year, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has left me with a daunting task – how do I summarize the highlights of the meeting in a single, short post? The answer of course is that I canât – Davos is so complex, diverse [...] ...
• Davos 2011 – Partnering with teens to build a ...
  This is not a science and technology post – which is a bit odd for a science and technology blog.  But I wanted to introduce five people who together shake up the whole idea of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos as being an elitist and increasingly irrelevant gathering of middle aged bal ...
• Davos 2011: Global Risks permeate conversation ...
  Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it.  Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of the Risk Re ...
• Davos 2011 – physics superstar meets music sup ...
  I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does!  He immediately launc ...

Reader Supported News

• Libya: Rebel Forces Hold Huge Armory, Ready fo ...
  Intro: "Weapons accumulated since the '80s are crammed into 12 hangars now under control of anti-Gaddafi forces." Inside one of the 12 hangars at Ajdabiya, Libya, storing a massive supply of arms, 03/01/11. (photo: Sean Smith/Guardian UK) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Libya: Rebel Forces Hold Huge Armory, Ready fo ...
  Intro: "Weapons accumulated since the '80s are crammed into 12 hangars now under control of anti-Gaddafi forces." Inside one of the 12 hangars at Ajdabiya, Libya, storing a massive supply of arms, 03/01/11. (photo: Sean Smith/Guardian UK) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
• Libyan People Resist Qaddafi as West Prepares ...
  Helene Mulholland reports: "The Gaddafi regime appears to be attempting to retake territory captured by opposition forces as international pressure grows on the isolated Libyan leader. Government opponents in the rebel-held town of Zawiyah, close to Tripoli, repelled an attempt by forces loyal t ...
• Libyan People Resist Qaddafi as West Prepares ...
  Helene Mulholland reports: "The Gaddafi regime appears to be attempting to retake territory captured by opposition forces as international pressure grows on the isolated Libyan leader. Government opponents in the rebel-held town of Zawiyah, close to Tripoli, repelled an attempt by forces loyal t ...
• US Repositioning Forces in Libyan Region
  Intro: "The US defense department says it is repositioning forces in the Libya region as the West weighs potential intervention against Muammar Gaddafi." A Libyan rebel stands guard in the remnants in one of the Gaddafi regime's most notorious buildings, 02/28/11. (photo: Getty Images) ...

War Resisters League

• Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobi ...
  As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
• Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
  “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
• The Egyptian Revolution and Police Tools &#821 ...
  As of this writing, the Egyptian revolution has entered its 16th day and is gaining ground and momentum: spreading to new regions, evolving into strikes and civil disobedience and clarifying its demands. What started as an impressive series of demonstrations on January 25th’s ‘Day of Wrath’ has ...
• Anti-war Activists to Grand Jury: “We will not ...
  Tuesday, January 25th was the day that 23 anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists were made to appear before a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago. It was also the day that all of them refused to testify. In solidarity with those targeted by government repression, several rallies were held in citi ...
• The other “Afghanistan Report”
  Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occup ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Notes from New Zealand: China’s Investment in ...
  CLF Director Robert S. Lawrence, MD, is on sabbatical in Auckland, New Zealand, where he is studying the country’s agriculture system. As we waited in the Sydney airport for our connecting flight to Auckland, I picked up a copy of The Australian, one of the major newspapers in Australia, and n ...
• A Blow to Industrial Dairy Farming in the U.K.
  Just over a week ago, I received a phone call from Katharine Mansell, the Media Relations Manager for the U.K. World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). What she told me was without doubt excellent news for both sustainable agriculture and public health in Western Europe. The proposal ...
• Increasing global food security: The next gold ...
  What do Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Monsanto, Kraft Foods, and Wal-Mart have in common? Some of the most financially successful companies in the world? Absolutely. Exploiters of workers and the environment? Some say so. The newest solution to global food insecurity and ...
• Antibacterial soap: Poses environmental health ...
  To protect yourself from harmful germs wash your hands, for at least 20 seconds, with plain old soap and water. That simple advice might be the take-away message from last week’s Food and Water Watch-sponsored congressional briefing on triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in hundreds of anti ...
• The Cristo Rey/Amazing Grace Community Garden: ...
          Where there was once a block of run-down row homes in McElderry Park in East Baltimore, Maryland, there is now a burgeoning vegetable garden. The Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church started the garden to provide green space for the community and produce for the church’s foo ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
  Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
• Obama's Indecent Interval
  Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Federal government to cut environmental spendi ...
  By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News March 1, 2011 5:02 PM   The Harper government is projecting some major cuts to several of its environmental initiatives, including climate change and clean air, over the next year, according to newly released federal estimates. OTTAWA — The Harper governme ...
• March 2011 Mini Veg Newsletter
  Vegans & Vegetarians of Alberta Vegans & Vegetarians of Alberta have posted the March 2011 issue of the Mini Veg Newsletter. read more
• Lower Kananaskis River Facility Redevelopment
  Organization:  Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation Initiative:  Lower Kananaskis River Facility Redevelopment Proposal ...
• Job Opportunity: Outdoor Educator — Wetlands P ...
  Position Outdoor Educator - Wetlands Program Organization Inside Education Organization Application Deadline 20 Mar 2011 (All day) Location Edmonton Link to Full Job Posting ...
• Job Opportunity: Outdoor Educator — Forest Pro ...
  Position Outdoor Educator - Forest Program Organization Inside Education Organization Application Deadline 20 Mar 2011 (All day) Location Calgary Link to Full Job Posting ...

Stop NATO

• Stop NATO News March 2, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Pan-European Security System: NATO Recruits Ukraine For Interceptor Missile System, Rapid Deployment Force, Cyber Warfare Operations, Horn Of Africa Deployment 2. Georgian Afghan War Deployments, Deaths “Down Payment On Admission Into NATO”: U.S. A ...
• U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest ...
  Stop NATO March 1, 2011 U.S. And NATO Escalate World’s Deadliest War On Both Sides Of Afghan-Pakistani Border Rick Rozoff The United States and its military allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have entered the third month of war in Afghanistan this year, which President Barack Obama ...
• Audio/Text: NATO Becoming Global Security Forc ...
  Stop NATO March 1, 2011 Voice of Russia February 28, 2011 Is NATO to become a global security organization? Radio interview: ==== http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/25298789/46779672/index.html See also: Africa is the next NATO goal: ==== http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/01/46720879.html [Roug ...
• Stop NATO News March 1, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Brussels: Kyrgyz President To Meet With NATO, EU, International Crisis Group Chiefs 2. Foreign Minister’s Visit: Georgia To Advise Egypt On “Post-Revolution Transition” 3. Afghanistan: Italian Soldier Killed, Four Wounded; Nation’s Death Toll At 37 ...
• Stop NATO News February 28, 2011
  ==== stopnato-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ==== 1. Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attacks 2. NATO Commander Promotes “In-Depth Cyberdefense” 3. U.S., NATO Allies Prepare For Military Intervention In Libya 4. U.S.-South Korea Military Exercise Labelled Preparation For War 5. Editorial: World Cr ...

Before It's News

• Dimitri Speck: The three phases of secret gold ...
• MBA Mortgage Applications Fell 6.5%
• Senegal: Senegal has cut diplomatic ties with ...
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Intel Hub

• Haley Barbour: Obama Is Deliberately Trying To ...
  The Huffington Post March 2, 2011 WASHINGTON — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) is accusing the Obama administration of deliberately driving up energy costs, comparing the destructiveness of high gas prices to the financial troubles of Wall Street. “This administration’s policies have been des ...
• The HIV Test Fraud – You Can’t Get ...
  The Intel Hub By Liam Scheff – Contributing Writer March 1st, 2011 Heavyweight Champion Tommy Morrison was on his way to becoming one of the sport’s all-time legends, when a positive HIV test sidelined him, costing him career opportunities and tens of millions of dollars in earnings. Morrison ne ...
• James Corbett: False Flags Unraveling
  James Corbett March 1st, 2011 TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/sunday-u… Related Posts: Davis Arrest Throws US Undercover Campaign in Pakistan into Disarray Captured CIA Agent Connected To False Flags Within Pakistan? The Truth About Terrorism – James Corbett Feds Target Amer ...
• Adrian Salbuchi On Russia Today: Oil Prices Ri ...
  Adrian Salbuchi on Russia Today March 1st, 2011 Speaking to the US Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke explained that prolonged increased in the cost of oil would pose a threat to the US economy. Bernanke noted a more plausible outcome from oil spikes would be a temporary and mild as ...
• Rep. Gary Lambert of New Hampshire – Wed March ...
  The Intel Hub Radio March 1st, 2011 Tomorrow on The Intel Hub Radio, Shepard Ambellas and Bob Tuskin will be joined by Rep. Gary Lambert of New Hampshire. Gary is the co sponsor of a bill in NH that would make most TSA pat downs a sexual offense. This is a wonderful bill that if [...]

FRS

• Pete Seeger officially joins anti-Israel boyco ...
  Wed, March 02, 2011 Seeger, 92, one of the fathers of American folk music, is a veteran political and peace activist. By Nir Hasson American folk music legend Pete Seeger on Monday officially joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign – an international movement to pressure and sancti ...
• Yemen leader blames protests on US
  Yemen’s President Saleh (joining Libya’s Gaddafi) accuses US and Israel of destabilising his country and Arab world as fresh protests hit capital Sanaa.  01 Mar 2011 Yemen’s president has hit out at Israel and the US, accusing them of destabilising his country and the Arab world as protesters ...
• Greece: 59 migrants on hunger strike hospitali ...
  Το ÏÏαγοÏδι Ïου μεÏανάÏÏη – Song for the 300 hunger strikers in Greece Feb 25, 2011 solidarity is our We@pon download the file and open it at 2nd march 2011: http://ecd-hungerstrike.blogspot.com/ write a protest e-mail to the greek authorities: http://hungerstrike300.espivblogs.ne ...
• Many African migrants in Libya mistakenly targ ...
  Mar 1, 2011 While many have hailed the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi’s rule in Libya as symptomatic of a nationalistic desire for freedom and equality, there is a dark side to this revolution. Many African migrant workers report that they have been attacked by anti-government protesters, after ...
• Libya exposes risks of China’s African v ...
  March 02, 2011 By Associated Press , BEIJING (AP) — Tens of thousands of Chinese workers are scrambling to escape the chaos in Libya, highlighting the risks taken by Chinese businesses piling into unstable African countries in search of oil, gas and other resources. Beijing is taking unprecedent ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
  As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
• The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – February 26, 2 ...
  Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people ...
• Global Revolution 2011
  I believe the time has come to unite, those of us who are sane, who can see that the masses are comprised of so many cultures and vastly different ways of life, yet we all demand essentially the same things. We demand to be treated with respect. We demand the right to a decent way of life. We ...
• Revolutions & Manipulations
  While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situatio ...
• Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution ...
  Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.

StillSmallVoice

• Just in time for Women's History Month
  The White House has released a report, "Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being." You can read the whole thing here, but some highlights: ⢠ Women have caught up with men in college attendance, and younger women are now more likely than younger men to have a college o ...
• Come to a Children of Abraham symposium
  Christ Episcopal Church in Middle Haddam is hosting a Children of Abraham Symposium. Come join in a discussion with a minister, a rabbi, and an imam. The discussion starts at 7 p.m. and the event is free and open to the public. I'll save you a seat.
• Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!
  Let's all go out and celebrate accordingly. Years ago, I drove up to Springfield, Mass.,�to visit Theodor Seuss Geisel's boyhood home. It was a private residence, but the people who lived there at the time were very kind about answering my questions. And as a marker, they had hanging a slate p ...
• Cut Pell Grants but yes! Let's continue subsid ...
  The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) has a handy-dandy chart that shows what H.R. 1�-- which was passed Feb. 19 --�protects, and what it slashes. Protected? Billions in subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Slashed? Pell Grants, to the tune of $5.7 billion. Flickr photo
• A little more reading with Wednesday's column. ...
  To read more about Mansfield Training School, go here. To read a relatively-up-to-date list of�state agencies'�group homes, go here. Flickr photo

Associated Content

• What Battle-Worn State Lawmakers Can Learn fro ...
  Beleaguered state lawmakers from Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana engaged in an uphill battle can learn something from lawmakers in Illinois. Union workers and middle class workers stand firm in defending their collective bargaining rights.Contributor: Sandra Tedford Published: Mar 01, 2011
• Christina Aguilera Falls Again, Arrested for P ...
  Christina Aguilera has seen a recent spate of negative events enter her world. Early Tuesday morning, March 1, she added an arrest for public intoxication to the growing list of bad things happening in her life...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Mar 01, 2011
• Dr. Seuss and Read Across America
  Our school has green eggs and ham for lunch on March 2, based on Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham". Seuss' books helped many to read. Seuss earned the honor of his birthday being later celebrated as Read Across America Day.Contributor: Andrea Rowe Published: Mar 01, 2011
• Charlie Sheen's Bizarre Interview on 'The Toda ...
  In a bizarre interview on "The Today Show," star of "Two and a Half Men" Charlie Sheen launched a new attack on CBS, the producers of his show, and Warner Brothers which may soon include a $320 million mental anguish suit.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Mar 01, 2011
• Teddy Kennedy FBI Documents Feature Prostitute ...
  Judicial Watch has obtained some previously secret FBI documents that reveal a disquieting portrait of the late Teddy Kennedy, long term senator, erstwhile presidential candidate, and last of the star-crossed Kennedys of his generation.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Feb 28, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Add Just a Bit of Water To Tiny Canisters And ...
  Even in places where potable drinking water is scarce, some kind of water is ofter obtainable--even if it’s the stuff that usually ends up in the latrine. SiGNa Chemistry Inc. is taking advantage of the hydrogen in that water with a new portable canister that can power a small fuel cell to juic ...
• Researchers Create Moldable Metals That Are St ...
  Plastics are great because they are so easily moldable into just about anything, but that manipulability also often introduces a degree of fragility as well. For high strength and durability, what you really want is a metal alloy of some kind. Now Yale scientists are doing away with this streng ...
• Acid Art: An Artist Uses Mine Drainage, Dissol ...
  This morning Wired Science posted a fascinating Q+A with San Francisco-based geologist-artist Dave Janesko, who creates works of art by intervening in natural--and unnatural--environmental processes. Using acid runoff from mines (above) and the fumes created by electronic components dissolving ...
• Scientists Book Trips Aboard Private Spaceship ...
  The commercial space industry has booked its first science expeditions, the Southwest Research Institute announced today. At least two researchers have tickets to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, with another six seats on reserve, and the team also reserved six flights on an XCOR Lynx I r ...
• By Tuning a Laser to Pull Rather Than Push, Re ...
  There’s no escaping it: though the tractor beam is a staple of sci-fi space-faring scenarios, it’s also extremely counter-intuitive. How does one pull something in via an outward propagating beam? Now a few Chinese researchers think they’ve found the answer via a theoretical method that should ...

Veterans Today

• Smoke screen budget battles
  It has been nearly impossible to comprehend where these sudden concerns about the deficit came from. Why? Because the people doing the most complaining were in charge when it all happened. February 3, 2008 Updated: February 11, 2008 Q: During the Clinton administration was the federal budget bal ...
• GORDON DUFF: 9/11, “HOW” or &#8220 ...
  Questions on the destruction of the World Trade Center By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The original report by the National Institute of Standards, describing the destruction of the World Trade Center as resulting from heat from jet fuel fires, a relatively low temperature source of sho ...
• Bobby Hanafin: Ivy League Colleges Debate Mili ...
  What the little media coverage the heckling of a Wounded Iraq Vet who advocated bring ROTC back to the campus of Columbia University got from a few anti-ROTC protesters. Press coverage has been political and ideological in view points. This article strives to give a balanced two sided view.
• BAHRAIN AND THE POPCORN REVOLUTION
  WHY THIS KINGDOM MATTERS TO THE WEST BY DR. ROBIN MCFEE As I finish this article, a sequel to my earlier one, it is late Monday, February 21st, and I am heading out of Bahrain. By the time I arrive in the West, the impact of the Tuesday deadline – the demands of the protestors [...]
• The crusade of Western media against Islam
  As the Western governments add fuel to the fire of Islamophobic sentiments in their societies with inflammatory and rabble-rousing actions and statements, the Western media mischievously try their best to portray a lopsided, biased and prejudiced image of Muslims in an attempt which should be in ...

War is Business

• Raytheon Training Afghan Pilots. Next Pakistan ...
  Buy the mighty Afghan air force
• Big Site Expansion: Profiles Of 3,100 Foreign ...
  To build this new database of 3,100 Defense Department contractors, I downloaded 11 years of spending data for work performed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Israel. The records serve as a starting point for what aims to be a much more complete public directory of arms traders and mil ...
• Saracen International Company Profile
  Who owns Saracen International? What is it doing in Somalia? Find contracts and make connections here.
• Braintact Company Profile
  Who owns Braintact Ltd? What is it doing in Israel? Find contracts and make connections here.
• Sweet Analysis Services Company Profile
  Who owns Sweet Analysis Services Inc? What is it doing in Afghanistan? Find contracts and make connections here.

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Winter 2010/2011: Cold and dry - as forecast!
  After a record breaking December, a mild February has meant that winter 2010/2011 across the UK as a whole has ended up only 15th coldest since UK figures started in 1910. Provisional UK data for winter 2010/2011 shows a mean of 2.39C, compared to the 1971-2000 average of 3.7C. How does that ...
• Can the government be trusted on solar subsidi ...
  The government have announced that they are to look at subsidies payable to large scale solar power farms that have started to spring up across the country. The so called 'feed in tariffs' are the cash subsidies given to anyone who generates electricity by putting solar panels on their roof, a ...
• Lowest January Arctic ice on satellite record
  One of the questions that I'm often asked is how can global temperatures have reached near-record levels, when here in the UK we have had record breaking cold? It's an issue that many people have great difficulty in accepting. Of course the answer is that the UK represents a tiny fraction of t ...
• A wild start to February - back to square one ...
  Severe gales and heavy rain have battered Yorkshire in the last few days. The highest wind speed was recorded at Fylingdales on the North York Moors with 70mph on Friday. Pennine areas have had a month's worth of rain since Thursday. 79.2mm of rain was measured at Bingley in West Yorkshire sinc ...
• Global temperatures continue to fall.
  The January Global temperature, according to UAH satellite data, was 0.009C below the 1981-2010 average. The previous month, December 2010, was 0.181C above average A year ago, in January 2010, the global temperature was 0.542C above the 1981-2010 average. If the more standard 196 ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• China Shows Its G-20 Might, Wins on Imbalances
  In case you missed it, and I can't blame you if you did because it mostly consisted of theatrics as opposed to anything substantial, the G-20 convened a meeting on the question of global economic imbalances over the weekend in Paris and issued a tame communique. Instead of having a substantial b ...
• Like Merkel, Cameron Doesn't Get Multicultural ...
  Why oh why do Benetton ads make more sense than some of our leaders? Politicians are not usually the most discerning observers of social dynamics. George W. Bush simplifies matters of anti-Americanism into "either you're with us or against us." In similar fashion, public dialogue concerning mult ...
• Three Cheers for UK Women Drivers, Shame on EU
  My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams; this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the Road Warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time... While I am generally among the most pro-Eu ...
• Bahrain GP in Jeopardy: F1 and Authoritarianis ...
  In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, heaven knows - anything goes It's weekend feature time. I suppose that hosting a Formula One grand prix is, above all else, a vanity project. In the same way that hosting the World Cup or the Winter or Summer Olymp ...
• Behavioural Economics? Try Biological Economic ...
  By now, all and sundry should be familiar with behavioural economics. In contrast to homo economicus or rational economic man, real humans are subject to all sorts of foibles during decision-making processes. This body of work was most memorably crystallized in Kahneman and Tversky's prospect th ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• QE3? Several Top Federal Reserve Officials See ...
  The end of QE2 is still several months away and yet quite a few top Federal Reserve officials are already hinting that more quantitative easing may be necessary.  Apparently the U.S. economy is not moving forward as rapidly as they would like.  So it looks like "QE3" could be on ...
• Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Be ...
  Today budget cutters are on the rampage from coast to coast and often one of their first targets is public school teachers. What we have witnessed recently in Wisconsin is just one example of this. The truth is that you do not want to become a teacher if you want to have finan ...
• As The Obamas And The Ultra-Wealthy Live The H ...
  Barack Obama recently made the following statement to American families that are struggling to survive in this economy: "If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, or you might put off a vacation." A few days after making that statement Obama sen ...
• Ashley’s Tragic Story: A Heartbreaking E ...
  What you are about to read is perhaps the most heartbreaking story that I have ever come across. It is so tragic that I am not even quite sure how to introduce it. Some time ago, a reader named Ashley sent me an email that described the nightmare that she has been living [...]
• Find A Job? Good Luck In This Economy – ...
  The U.S. government is telling us that the unemployment rate fell all the way down to 9.0% in January.  Should we all cheer?  Is it now going to be a lot easier to find a job?  Has the economy finally turned around?  Are happy days here again?  Well, it is a good thing to have [ ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• TCN Radio: February 2011, Episode #2
  Here is the February episode of TCN Radio. The featured audio essays include a reading of an issue of Kerbloom pertaining to Letters of Insurgents,...
• Anarcho-Punk zine: PunkWay #5, winter 2011
  New anarcho-punk zine published in R...
• New Radical Distributor Based in Denver
  P&L Press, the new publishing and distribution arm of the thirty year old worker-owned union job shop P&L Printing, is now fully operati...
• Call Out for Submissions for Fire to the Priso ...
  We are currently beginning to compile issue 11 of Fire to the Prisons magazine. If you are not familiar with this project you can check out pre...
• "No Tears for the Fallen" -- flyer f ...
  This text is transcribed from a leaflet found in Central Indiana, presumably regarding recent events. Last August a drunken policeman, respo...

E U Times

• With Russia’s $650 billion rearmament plan, th ...
  The graying bear is getting a make-over. Russia’s military is launching its biggest rearmament effort since Soviet times, including a $650 billion program to procure 1,000 new helicopters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Analysts say Russia, w ...
• 11 suspects charged with Pre-Teen sexual assau ...
  Police have arrested seven more suspects in connection to the sexual assault of a pre-teen girl in Cleveland, Texas. The following individuals, all from Cleveland, have been charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child under 14: – Jared Glenn McPherson, 18 – Kelvin Rashad King, 21 – Marcus ...
• HPV Affects Half Of U.S. Men
  A study out yesterday in The Lancet by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., and her colleagues finds that 50 percent of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. have genital infection with human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is the virus that causes cervical cancer in wo ...
• Gaddafi’s media strategy backfires
  Libya has never been a friendly place for foreign journalists. A media ban kept reporters away as the uprising against strongman Muammar Gaddafi began on Feb. 17, and officials of the Gaddafi regime blasted journalists entering opposition-controlled areas last week as “outlaws” and al-Qaeda symp ...
• Russian Warning Issued Over “Controlled” Comet ...
  A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by Minister Serdyukov of the Russian Defense Ministry on the building of an additional 5,000 underground ‘bomb’ shelters in Moscow warns that even though progress is being made, the appearance of the new Comet Elenin [photo right] in our Solar Sy ...

Voiceless Victim

• The Real Role of the Media in the Catholic Chi ...
  The paedophile protecting Pope and his seriously creepy Vatican spokespersons try to paint the role of the media in the reporting of the Catholic Church child rape tsunami as a conspiracy. They can’t quite make up their minds who exactly is behind their fallacious nonsense of a persecution. The ...
• Why Is Anyone Still A Catholic?
  On the day the Egyptian people succeeded in ousting an oppressive and controlling  regime noted for abuse of power and human rights abuses, it is worthwhile to evaluate the refusal of ordinary Catholics to consider the consequences of their own selfish, mindless and cowardly support for the paed ...
• The Pope Calling The Berlusconi Black
  I’ve heard some pretty obvious cases of the pot calling the kettle black, but the recent controversy over the Pope ticking off Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for child sexual exploitation shows how complete is the lack of self-awareness demonstrated by the psychopaths who surround and ...
• Let The Pope Try and Claim This Letter Was Mis ...
  Since the recent emergence of a secret letter from the Papal Nuncio to Ireland written to the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference, which squashes any attempt by Irish Bishops to report child sexual abuse to the local police, the Vatican has predictably whined about the letter being  “misunderstoo ...
• How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You ...
  Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, a ...

WL Central

• 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instanc ...
  TweetEFF has chosen the cables they feel have "been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events." Their choices: “Dancing Boy” Scandal Alleges Child Prostitution, Possible Drug Use among U.S. Private Contractors Pfizer Allegedly Sought to Blackmail Nigerian Regulator to Stop L ...
• Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdót ...
  TweetThe US Department of Justice has issued a subpoena on Twitter for material related to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, including her personal details and, it can be assumed, all her private direct messages. Ms Jónsdóttir twittered thus: department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info ...
• 2011-01-08: Peter King: Zeal of Hypocrites
  TweetA month ago, on the 7th of December, a week after Peter King made his controversial Wikileaks Is Terrorism" comments, I posted this rather lengthy article to my blog, and linked to it from WL Central, documenting both King's hypocrisy and the possible motives he might have for taking such a ...
• 2011-01-08: U.S. DOJ Twitter Subpoena Updates
  TweetShortly after news of the subpoena issued to Twitter by the The U.S. Department of Justice emerged, an electronic copy of the subpoena surfaced and was, of course, circulated via Twitter. (A copy of the subpoena can be found here in pdf format.) Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Ice ...
• 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorsh ...
  TweetIt was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter user ...

U N News

• Haiti: UN human rights expert urges presidenti ...
  The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, today urged candidates in the country's upcoming presidential run-off election to spearhead the fight against impunity and champion greater respect of human rights.
• UN chief heads to Los Angeles to discuss globa ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Los Angeles next week as part of the United Nations initiative that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries.
• Steps taken to prevent repeat of fraud in Hait ...
  Measures are being taken at the 1,500 voting centres for Haiti's presidential run-off election next month to prevent a repetition of fraud that marred the first round last November, a senior United Nations official said today.
• Late US diplomat Holbrooke a shining example o ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today held up veteran United States diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died in December, as a steadfast friend of the United Nations and a shining example of what the Organization can aspire to be.
• UN official urges Latin American nations to ca ...
  The United Nations climate change chief today called on Latin American nations to fully capitalize on opportunities to take climate change action to the next level, building on the achievements reached at last year's conference in Cancún, Mexico.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Micr ...
  Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
• 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
  The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home off ...
• The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In ...
  In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
• CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
  Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
• Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
  He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners a ...

Rewilding Institute

• Victory in the Southern Ocean Day for the Whal ...
  From Captain Paul Watson It’s official – The Japanese whaling fleet has called it quits in the Southern Ocean. At least for this season. If they return next season the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will be ready to resume our efforts to obstruct and disable Japanese whaling operations. “Th ...
• Conservation News Brief
  Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government h ...
• Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
  On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpo ...
• Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesle ...
  Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
• New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
  There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this hig ...

Asia Sentinel

• Could Asean Drift Apart?
  China's growing influence risks splitting the organization
• The Rebirth of Japan Inc.
  After two decades of disappointment, Japanese companies start to regain their global footing
• A Veteran Journalist's View of Today's World
  And it isn't encouraging
• Politics and Football in Indonesia
  Frustration results in clashes in several cities
• Book Review: the Buddha's Multiple Lives
  The Jatakas: Times and Lives of a Bodhisattva. By Alexandra R. Kapur-Fic. Abhinav Publications, Hardcover, 597 pages. Available from Amazon,US$89

We Know the Lies

• Republicans Planning to Introduce Bill to Reve ...
  Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) has announced that he plans to introduce legislation to reverse the ban on incandescent light bulbs which is scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2014. The ban was included in a comprehensive energy bill that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2007 as an ...
• Bunkers Being Built Nationwide!... Do You Hav ...
  According to a video that just surfaced on Youtube, the government and/or private entities and/or agencies could potentially be gearing up for a massive disaster of great proportions. ~ Videoread more
• Mainstream Media and Public Health Turn On Big ...
  �Pharmaceutical companies will try to profit any way possible, and the recent push to place millions on statin drugs in the name of high cholesterol has been the latest goal to peddle drugs to healthy people. read more
• iPhone 5... RFID... An Apple Chip Rotten to ...
  �Reading the article below, it may seem fairly innocent and innocuous of Apple to suggest that their new iPhone will have a �new twist� but then again, it may not. ~ Neil Fosterread more
• 'Wal-Mart Of Weed'... weGrow Set To Open In S ...
  �A retail store billing itself as "the Wal-Mart of weed" will open its doors in Sacramento tomorrow, the Sacramento Bee reports. The 10,000-square-foot weGrow outlet, advertised as a one-stop shop for legal growers seeking supplies and training, claims the honor of being the industry's first-e ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Alex Jones On The View
  Alex Jones On The View? Who would have thunk it? Alex Jones was on The View and blasted truth at 30 million viewers. Alex Jones goes prime-time speaking to the Yentas on The View. It is nice to see Alex getting a chance to blast some truth to the 30 million or more sheep that [...] Related ...
• Site Upgrade Completed
  I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded to a faster server. The following explains what I went through / am still going through to make this happen: Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Site Upgrades Coming Hello This site may be offline on a temporary basis... Site Im ...
• The Charlie Sheen Test
  I want you to take a test. This is called The Charlie Sheen Test. To take this test please grab a pen and a piece of paper. Now count to 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now I want you to write down the first word that comes to mind [...] Related posts:Charlie Veitch vs. McDonald’s Trying to stop p ...
• I have had it with GoDaddy
  I have had it with GoDaddy and their over-stuffed shared servers. For the past couple of days the load time of pages on here have been brutally slow. A few months ago I talked about going to a dedicated server. While my traffic does not justify paying for that cost, I am going to switch [...] ...
• Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middl ...
  Dozens of people have been reported killed in the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight as violence continues to spread across the country. Key administrative buildings have been set on fire, with thousands of anti-government activists still on the streets calling for an end to the 41-year rule of Co ...

Truth About Our World

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the New Wo ...
• Government Promises to Cut Social Security in ...
  Activist Post It’s official, national austerity measures are here!  As Wisconsin protesters fill the streets because of lost rights and benefits to workers, the nation is gearing up to face similar losses with social security being cut.  Comedian George Carlin warned us that this day would co ...
• The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Ame ...
  How does military spending impact Americans? by Kevin Zeese President Obama and the Congress have taken 66% of discretionary spending in the federal budget off the table –the SecurityBudget – while proposing a freeze to the rest of the budget and deep cuts to some programs that provide necessiti ...
• No seeds, no independent research
  Companies that genetically engineer crops have a lock on what we know about their safety and benefits. By Doug Gurian-Sherman Soybeans, corn, cotton and canola — most of the acres planted in these crops in the United States are genetically altered. “Transgenic” seeds reduce the use of some insec ...
• Media Demonizes Gaddafi as Pentagon Prepares A ...
  Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 24, 2011 As we reported yesterday, the United States has specific instructions to intervene militarily in Libya under the cover of providing humanitarian assistance. Less than 24 hours after our report, the Pentagon has announced it is looking at “ ...

Bloomberg

• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• HP's New and Steady Hand
  The computer maker's latest results underscore CEO Mark Hurd's emphasis on execution -- and an apparent return to basics
• Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal
  The search giant quietly acquires the startup, netting possibly a key player in its push into wireless, "the next frontier in search"
• S&P Keeps Hold on Google
  Analyst Scott Kessler says he is surprised by Google's filing to sell more shares. Plus: Hot Topic, Six Flags, and more

Enviroblog

• EWG testifying on behalf of clean drinking wat ...
  By Leeann Brown, Press SecretaryEnvironmental Working Group's Senior Counsel Dusty Horwitt made his fourth appearance today (March 1, 2011) before the New York City Council's Committee on Environmental Protection to highlight the risks posed by the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• If you ask a caveman a chemistry question...
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG Vice-President for Media Relations Good news. Maine governor Paul LePage claims he has read the scientific research on the health dangers posed by bisphenol-A, the plastic component and synthetic estrogen. His conclusion? "Quite... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Fluoride in your water: How much is too much?
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed that public water systems cut back on the amount of fluoride they add to drinking water. Whether you live in a city... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for fu ...
• Borax: Not the green alternative it's cracked ...
  By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist I'm just going to start with the bad news, OK? Borax is not a green cleaning ingredient, as many have been led to believe. Yes, the 20-mule team laundry booster box has a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
• Bottled Water Industry to EWG: Shut Up!
  By Alex Formuzis, EWG VP for Media Relations When the head of a public interest group (like, say, EWG) receives a threatening letter from one of the nation's top industry lobbyists, it generally means he's done something right. On January... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go high ...
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprising ...
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• (More than) 101 ways to read the New York Time ...
  The Times in your hands, in more ways than one. More
• See something, scan something: Bloomberg pushe ...
  You’ll find these symbols peeking out from the corner of a subway advertisement for the New York Public Library, the Flying Karamazov Brothers’ show at the Minetta Lane Theatre and JetBlue package deals. On a building at Wooster Street and Grand Street, on ...
• Two ladies and an actor and a governor's big f ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Zubin Mehta takes the Israel Philharmonic to t ...
  "We have never felt comfortable," Mehta said. "The recession hasn't touched us because even before the recession we had no money. The government gives us about eight percent of our budget and doesn't give any tax deductibility to individual donors, so we re ...
• Chris Christie places a desperate bet on Atlan ...
  >Chris Christie’s plan to save Atlantic City, unlike much he has proposed in the course of becoming a national political force, is not particularly conservative. It is also not gratuitously provocative, and does not lend itself to YouTube virality. What it ...

Views & News from Norway

• Ski-VM action in town as well
  Thousands of skiing enthusiasts have been in Oslo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM) during the past week, and not all the action is taking place at the arenas or on the trails around Holmenkollen. The medals ceremonies have been taking place downtown every evening, while the su ...
• Hotels finally cash in on Ski-VM
  Most hotels in the Oslo area were fully booked this week and through the end of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM) on Sunday. After a disappointing start to the championships, in terms of business, some hotels have now grabbed the chance to double their rates, reports newspaper Dage ...
• Norway involved in Libyan expulsion
  Norwegian diplomats were actively involved in successful efforts to expel Libya from the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on Tuesday because of Libya’s “gross and systematic human rights violations.” The 192 countries making up the UN’s General Assembly voted to remove Libya from the list of ...
• Emergency network has weaknesses
  A new digital communications system for emergency services in Norway came online last autumn after numerous cost and timetable overuns. Its users are now reporting shortcomings with the new equipment. Fire, police and ambulance services currently communicate using a number of different analogue ...
• Critics blast government’s bombs
  Norway’s left-center government unleashed two environmental bombs within 24 hours of each other this week, timed to explode when millions of Norwegians are both distracted and cheered by the Nordic World Ski Championships (Ski-VM) going on in Oslo. Now not only will controversial overhead power ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• A Solar Powered Life – Part II
  In case you hadn’t realised it, I’m a big fan of renewable energy systems. In the article A Solar Powered Life – Part I I gave an introduction to both grid connected solar power systems and off-grid (or standalone) solar power systems and described some of the differences between the two. In thi ...
• Dmitry Orlov: Peak Oil Lessons From The Soviet ...
  Those who appreciated the very interesting articles by Dmitry Orlov (recommended reading!) will appreciate this clip also. Duration: 29 minutes Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on del.icio. ...
• Soil Food Web Courses
  Fact: There are more living microorganisms in a tablespoon of healthy soil than there are people on the planet. Chances are, microbes do the most total work in your farm or garden. In fact, microorganisms do more work than all of us humans put together — about 10 times more according to Carbon ...
• Michael Pawlyn: Using Nature’s Genius in Archi ...
  How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun. — TED ...
• All the World’s Coral Reefs Could Be Destroyed ...
  As my country is host of the world’s largest known deep sea coral reefs outside Lofoten, and my wife’s country is part of the richest marine region on Earth, The Coral Triangle between Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, it makes me sad to learn about the new report Reefs at Risk Revis ...

Telecrap Urinal

• US Soldier Waterboards His 4-Year Old Daughter
  Can you believe this? A US soldier, upset that his 4-year old daughter could not recite the alphabet, waterboarded her. He knew that she was afraid of water and that is why he chose this form of punishment. Related posts:Cops Bust Up Frail 84-Year Old Woman With Alzheimers Local Blogger Catche ...
• Fish Hat Pope – Wake Up Soon
  Studio version of Fish Hat Pope' song 'Wake Up Soon' (altered lyrics to sunny afternoon by The Kinks!) Fish Hat Pope performed this live at the British Constitution Group meeting in London on Oct 31st 2009. Related posts:A little sniff for the dog mate? – Everything is OK Whistle Blowers W ...
• US Government: Why we let the Underwear Bomber ...
  The US Government now admits that they allowed the Underwear Bomber to board the Christmas Flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Related posts:BREAKING NEWS: US Government Admits It Helped Underwear Bomber Board Plane Extensive Interview with Kurt Haskell – Witness to Underwear Bomber Flight 253: ...
• United Breaks Guitars – Don’t mess ...
  Well the United Airlines baggage handlers broke the guitar in to two pieces. Then Mr. Carroll complained to United and it fell on deaf ears. Because of that he vowed to write three songs about their callous disregard and uncaring attitude. Related posts:United We Fall – Canada is a figment of ...
• Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by Ric ...
  9/11 was an inside job. Nano thermite and thermate were used to pulverize these buildings, and in the process murdered thousands of innocent people. Related posts:Nigerian Man is a Al-CIA-Duh Terrorist – USA Caught in False-Flag Terror Plot National Security Alert from the CIT Climategate Scan ...

Anna's News

• 100 Vegan Recipes That Even Your Kids Will Eat
  It's hard enough to get picky kids to eat foods that are good for them and will help them grow up strong, even without limiting the choices to only vegan options. While it might be a challenge, there are plenty of vegan recipes out there that can help ...Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
• Past medical testing on humans revealed
  Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses.......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
• 'The King's Speech' wins 4 Oscar Awards
  As expected, "The King's Speech" shines at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards 2011. The movie won the 'Best Motion Picture' award. It also bagged the 'Original Screenplay' award.Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) won the 'Best Director' award, while the .........Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• 10 College Basketball Underclassmen Who Are As ...
  The names listed below have been bandied about in mock drafts for months, and will assuredly be announced by David Stern at the Prudential Center in Newark come June 23rd (barring a lockout) Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chile's Seismic Waves Circled Earth and Hit Ca ...
  The 8.8 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck south central Chile a year ago, killed more than 500 people and cost the country $30 billion. The country is recovering as well as giving seismologists a lesson on more literal rebound effects. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! ...

Medical Marijuana

• 2/25/11 - NEW: History of the Individual Healt ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010: Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision - Republicans oppose the Mar. 2010 health care reforms for many reasons, especially the provision creating an individual health care mandate w ...
• 2/23/11 - Vaccines ProCon.org - US Supreme Cou ...
  vaccines.procon.org - UPDATED: Vaccines ProCon.org - On Feb. 22, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that vaccine injury claims must continue to be filed with the US Court of Federal Claims and cannot be filed directly against physicians or vaccine manufacturers in civil court.
• 2/23/11 - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Mar ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Barack Obama Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional - President Obama directed the Department of Justice today to stop defending in court the law that prevents gay marriage.
• 2/14/11 - Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Sur ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - NEW: Health Care Reform Opinion Polls/Surveys - A Jan. 15-19, 2011 poll by CBS and the New York Times found that 40% of Americans want to repeal the March 2010 health care law while 48% want to let it stand. A Dec. 14-15 FOX News poll found that 59% of respondents ...
• 2/14/11 - Help ProCon.org Win $5,000
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Progressives United - Russ Feingold

• My new group: Progressives United
  Today, I am proud to announce that progressives -- demanding change and demanding action -- have come together to help me launch a new group:�Progressives United � read more

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  new audio available; http://jewishcrimenetwork.blogspot.com/ ... udios.htmlStatistics: Posted by MonkeySeeMonkeyDo — Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:01 pm
• Social Engineering • Re: 'You're fired': Dior ...
  ‘I hope at the very least these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful.’ Cough! Splutter! Statistics: Posted by Scotty — Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:34 pm
• The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: W ...
  Rockclimber wrote: Enquiring minds would like to know! Anyway, I hope all is well Ognir! Scott double.Statistics: Posted by memory hole — Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:06 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Red Ice was just the podium for him to speak/share what he found. He was an airhead playing in a band finding this stuff and noticing that he was overhwelmed by it all. So the story is still that he killed himself due to the pressure, but pressure comes in many ways. He was not ready for thi ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  I used to be a subscribe to Red Ice but I now beleive they are a couple of dis-info agents by looking at the stuff they put on their site. I heard the Rik Clay audio when it came out. Is there any evidence that you can say that he was done in for exposing the logo ?.Statistics: Posted by michae ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Plasticize Me
  by Peter Manseau, March 2011 Will recent advances in human tissue preservation change the way we think about bodies, death, God⦠and China? Photograph via Flickr by Swamibu Questions concerning the ethical treatment of the dead have been with us at least since Sophocles, for whom a single act o ...
• Trans-Formative Change
  Meaghan Winter interviews Dean Spade, March 2011 Americaâs first openly transgendered law professor on the power of zines, the sacrifice social movements require, and the limits of legal reform. The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, unt ...
• America Primed
  Robert D. Kaplan, Stephen S. Kaplan THE PAST century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic multipolarity is already a reality. And, in military terms, Americaâs unipolar domin ...
• They Hate Us Because We Don’t Know Why T ...
  Malou Innocent In light of the killing of four Americans by Somali pirates earlier this month, it is useful to explore the ways in which Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to bring order to the destitute African state that is Somalia. In December 2006, neighboring Ethiopia, backed by U.S ...
  ( opit says:
  March 1, 2011 at 8:34 pm
  “No doubt U.S. leaders had the best of intentions. But their noble attempts to rescue Somalia spawned a number of unintended consequences.”
  I believe those are called ‘facts not in evidence’…or more commonly b.s.
  This is merely reiteration of the Mission Statement covering this and similar operations elsewhere. For instance
  U.S. Interventions – 1945 to the Present William Blum
  It would like the world to believe that its intervention is motivated only by “humanitarian” impulses. Perhaps the above history of U.S. interventions can …
  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/…/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html
  History of US Interventions
  This is the home page for the History of US Interventions investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History …
  http://www.historycommons.org › … › History of US Interventions
  Timeline of United States military operations – Wikipedia, the …
  Other interventions. In addition to the operations listed above, the US has a very active foreign policy that uses various methods to influence events in …
  Extraterritorial and major … – Other interventions – Battles with the Native Americans
  en.wikipedia.org/…/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
  History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890
  A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS. by Dr. Zoltan Grossman. The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2010. …
  academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
  US Military Intervention in Haiti
  18 Jan 2010 … GlobalSecurity.org is the leading source for reliable military news and military information, directed by John Pike.
  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/haiti.htm
  Howard Zinn on US Interventions, 3/19/08 Part 1
  10 min – 2 May 2008
  Uploaded by Chomskyan
  youtube.com
  Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
  A detailed record of U.S. foreign policy since World War 2: the widespread death, destruction, and suffering caused by numerous U.S. military and CIA …
  killinghope.org/
  It helps to know which questions to ask. After the invasion of Iraq I discovered information referred to as ‘the Bible for Iraq’ not covered in ‘Western’ press cached by Don Rumsfeld. “Post-Saddam Iraq : Desert Crossing” provides the rationale for ‘decapitating heads of governments in an arc covering the oil bearing regions of the Middle East’. That job is implemented more currently by Twitter/Facebook Colour Revolutions staged by NATO/CIA/Mossad/SAS in countries where American puppet rulers were installed : just like Saddam Hussein.
  URL and State Dept. docs opitslinfest.blogspot.com > Topical Index > Documents
  Foreign Policy likely holds a few more surprises. )
  
• The Death of Innocents
  Paul R. Pillar Juxtaposed articles in Monday’s New York Times concerned two incidents, widely separated in space and time, in which civilians died in military operations. In one, an Israeli panel released the conclusions of its inquiry into an airstrike in Gaza in 2002 which Israel used to kill ...
  
  

  Beware, Israeli War Criminals Are Using False Identities

  Hat Tip  Salem News